www.aafp.org / fpm ■ F A M I L Y P R A C T I C E M A N A G E M E N T ■ 23 IL LU ST R A TI O N B Y J O H N F R ET Z Nonphysician providers of many stripes now work in family practices. This includes a variety of midlevel providers, nurses and medical assistants, among others. One way Medicare recognizes these individuals for payment purposes is by reimbursing physicians for services provided “in...

BACKGROUND Major negative life events are associated with higher suicidality. In this association, two mediating paths were hypothesized: (a) via minor negative life events and (b) via depression. METHODS Ninety-six adolescent primary care patients were recruited in clinics, a physician's office, and school nurses' offices. RESULTS (1) Minor negative life events were associated with depress...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the association between sick leave prescription and physician burnout and empathy in a primary care health district in Lleida, Spain. METHODS This descriptive study included 108 primary care doctors from 22 primary care centers in Lleida in 2014 (183,600 patients). Burnout was measured with the Maslach Burnout Inventory and empathy with the Jefferson Scale of Physici...

The complaint of dizziness is one of the most common reasons that older adults feel constrained to visit the doctor's office. Because of a growing number of older people in the industrial society the problem grows. Therapeutic process of elderly people with vertigo and dizziness needs more than vestibular diagnostics. In addition to sufficient anamnesis, presence of visual deficits, extrasensor...

abstract prescribing behavior of physicians affected by many factors. the present study is aimed at discovering the simultaneous effects of the evaluated factors (including: price, promotion and demographic characteristics of physicians) and quantification of these effects. in order to estimate these effects, fluvoxamine (an antidepressant drug) was selected and the model was figured out by pan...

information about chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (copd)-related health resources allocation in china is very limited. the aim of the study was to explore the distribution of copd-related health resources allocation among different levels public hospitals (phs) in hunan province of central south china.we randomly collected data from 57 public hospitals (phs) at 3 different levels in huna...

introduction: medical information is a major tool in planning, coordinating and evaluating the delivered healthcare. in addition, documentation of medical records is useful for legal, educational and research purposes, managerial planning and accreditation. the purpose of this study is to identify the reasons for incompleteness of medical records and the physicians and managers' views in this r...