More than half were “walk-in clinics”: practices with evening and weekend opening hours, and offering walk-in services with no need to register or make an appointment. The remainder, targeted to administrative districts with the lowest concentration of primary care physicians, were “extended ...
In an ongoing process, the government “regularized” physicians who were trained in Indian medical systems, eventually allowing colleges to be set up for their training, and granting them recognition as AYUSH providers with a dedicated Ministry of AYUSH established in 2014. Second, a limited ...
https://bhw.hrsa.gov/sites/default/files/bureau-health-workforce/data-research/projecting-primary-care.pdf 4. McGinty EE, Stone EM, Kennedy-Hendricks A, Bachhuber MA, Barry CL. Medication for opioid use disorder: a national survey of primary care physicians. Ann ...
obstructive pulmonary disease in rural province, Vietnam Quynh Nguyen Nhat1, An Pham1, Vinh Nguyen1 1University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hochiminh City, Vietnam Aim: The aim of this survey was to investigate guideline-compliant COPD management among primary care physicians (PCPs) in rural ...
Primary care was defined as scheduled outpatient encounters with primary care physicians consisting of internal medicine, family medicine, and geriatrics. Patients whose payor type changed within a year were excluded from all analyses and consisted of less than 4% of patients (N = 35,906). ...
The recent success in France with buprenorphine should serve as an impetus for more active participation of US primary care physicians in opioid-dependency treatment.167 With generalization of maintenance treatments in France, there was an increase in the number of opioid-dependent patients undergoing ...
Factors influencing inquiry about patients’ alcohol consumption by primary health care physicians: qualitative semi-structured interview study. Fam Pract. 2003;20(3):270-275. doi:10.1093/fampra/cmg307 PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 17. Yoast RA, Wilford BB, Hayashi SW. ...
Fever is a common reason for attending primary health facilities in Vietnam. Response of health care providers to patients with fever commonly consists of making a presumptive diagnosis and proposing corresponding treatment. In Vietnam, where malaria was brought under control, viral infections, notably...
The National Review of Asthma Deaths (NRAD), Royal College of Physicians report 'why asthma still kills' published in 2014 highlights that frequent attenders to ED have an increased risk of requiring further medical intervention. Assessment: A gradual rise in unscheduled ED attendances among 4 ...
Methods Three hundred eighty-six patients with recurrent major depression or dysthymia who had largely recovered after 8 weeks of antidepressant treatment by their primary care physicians were randomized to a relapse prevention program (n = 194) or usual primary care (n = 192). Patients in the ...