A FMG consists of 6 to 10 physicians who work together with nurses to provide services for registered members of the group, on a non-geographical basis (usually around 10,000 to 20,000 people per FMG). A FMG provides services both by appointment and on a walk-in basis. It aims at ...
Many primary care providers are presently caring for lesbian patients without recognizing their sexual orientation or their unique medical and psychological needs. Enhanced knowledge and skills will allow these physicians to provide optimal and sensitive patient care for lesbians. Clearly, much more researc...
the health care of families through the life cycle, and a family-oriented approach to specific medical problems. Implementing this family-oriented approach in daily clinical practice raises broad ethical concerns (“Are family-oriented interventions ethical?”) and specific...
The main goals of this study were to assess primary care physicians’ (PCP) awareness to caregivers’ health risks and the extent that they recommended preventive measures to maintain the health of the caregivers. As no suitable instrument existed, a secondary goal was to develop a scale to mea...
“It sounded like a good idea to have somebody else [the nurse] in there that you could call and talk to and ask questions and then she would find the answer and get back to us.”– Patient, Wilson 2018 (Chronic Care Management services including a team of physicians, nurse practitioners...
and few investigated decision-making at the clinical level. An important question is whether economic evaluations affect clinical practice. The project is an intervention research study designed to understand the role of economic evaluation in the decision-making process of family physicians (FPs). The...
“Physicians", "Primary Care”, “Physician’s Practice Patterns”, “Quality Improvement”) and keywords (e.g., family practitioner, home clinic, policy adherence). Vocabulary and syntax were adjusted across databases. Results were restricted to the English language and the dates from January ...