Despite Massachusetts having many of the most sought-after physicians in the world, the most basic form of medical practice, primary care, is badly broken here for both patients and providers, state officials said in an alarming new report this week. Among the problems singled out...
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This result was not found for Medicaid HMO enrollees, even by comparison to other Medicaid enrollees. Conclusions. A key policy-relevant result is the negative association of primary care physicians per capita with the likelihood of ACS admissions, without an offsetting association with resource co...
Management systems seem to be ad hoc in nature and vary greatly across governorates, districts, and facilities [22]. Employment is often characterized by non-standardized selection processes, which is particularly problematic, as public primary care physicians are salaried civil servants [3]. Recruitme...
The U.S. Primary care physicians market size was valued at USD 266.0 billion in 2022 and is expected to expand at a compound annual growth(CAGR) of 3.28% from 2023 to 2030. The growth can be attributed to the growing access toprimary careproviders, which is expected to reduce healthcare...
Participants were either identified by systematic depression screening or referred by primary care physicians. Inclusion criteria included age 60 years or older, meeting current major depression and/or dysthymia criteria on the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders, Clinician Version,...
Adults with poor mental health or psychological distress (PD) have complex primary care needs. Primary care physicians are often the only mental health providers for adults with common mental health conditions, like anxiety and depression [1, 2]. For these patients, primary care physicians are res...
policymakers assumed that primary care and its workforce could be defined by the numbers of practicing physicians with generalist training (e.g., family medicine physicians, general internists, pediatricians and, in past decades, “general practitioners”), but changing roles now challenge this ...
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 ...
Sections 2 Primary care and health systems responsiveness, 3 Responsiveness and economic conditions describe the state of the art of the literature on the measurement of responsiveness in the healthcare sector, and whether there is any evidence of a relationship between responsiveness and economic ...