Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VAJohn Wiley & Sons, LtdMount Sinai Journal of Medicine: A Journal of Translational and Personalized MedicineZipkin DA, Greenblatt L, Kushinka JT. Evidence-based medi- cine and primary care: keeping up is hard to do. Mt Sinai J ...
18 The study was conducted at the VA medical centers in Denver, Colorado, Palo Alto, California, Richmond, Virginia, and Seattle, Washington, as well as at their affiliated community-based outpatient clinics. All patients with an assigned VA primary care physician and at least 1 primary care ...
154 In addition to improved access, shifting the treatment of opioid addiction into physicians' offices has the potential to enhance health care provision. Intravenous drug users are less likely to be offered and to receive appropriate HIV treatment than other HIV-infected patients.155,156 The ...
Chief Clinical Excellence Officer, CenterWell Senior Primary Care, Richmond, VA
If patients experience care by well-organized teams, both satisfaction with overall care and with their provider increase [10, 11]. Lastly, recent studies indicate that more effective teams are associated with less job exhaustion and burnout for physicians and other staff [12, 13]. Despite the ...
Prescribing risk-reducing medications is an uncommon practice among primary care physicians surveyed in 3 US studies.61,62,65 Factors associated with prescribing included more breast cancer diagnoses in clinical practice; belief that benefits outweigh harms; patients asking about medications; personal ...
The need for an early and confirmed diagnosis of COPD is increasingly appreciated by primary care physicians in whose hands the ability to make improvements in early diagnosis largely rests. Case-finding of patients with symptoms of lifestyle limitation is probably the most practical way to achieve...
The VA-based study is a cluster randomized controlled trial, in which Primary Care Providers (PCPs) are assigned to one of two study arms: OA Intervention and Usual Care Control. PCPs assigned to the OA Intervention receive the Provider Intervention described below, and their enrolled patients ...
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Ten things physicians and patients should question. http://www.choosingwisely.org/societies/amda-the-society-for-post-acute-and-long-term-care-medicine/. 2015. Accessed September 16, 2016. 32. Bibbins-Domingo K; U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Aspirin Use for the Primary Prevention of ...