Alterations in Medical Interpretation During Routine Primary Care

Spirometry interpretation in primary care.

manpower for primary medical care in iran

iran is a large country with a total area of 1,645,000 square kilometers. the country’s population is estimated at about 31 millions. there is an uneven distribution of the population, varying from 2 to 50 per square kilometer. sixty per cent of the total population (18 millions) is living in nearly 66,000 small and large village’s scattered throughout the country. a total of 10,000 physicians ...

Interpretation of electrocardiograms in primary care.

the next person. QOF encouraged us to identify chronic kidney disease (CKD), and now overburdened by its commonness, we are at risk of throwing away all we have achieved. Few diagnoses are predictably associated with such a dramatic increase in cardiovascular risk and none are so easily identified by a cheap and easily available blood test.2,3 The clustering of vascular pathologies with diabete...

Variation in routine electrocardiogram use in academic primary care practice.

BACKGROUND Lack of practical consensus regarding routine electrocardiogram (ECG) ordering in primary care led us to hypothesize that nonclinical variations in ordering would exist among primary care providers. METHODS We used 2 computerized billing systems to measure ECG ordering at visits to providers in 10 internal medicine group practices affiliated with a large, urban teaching hospital fr...

Colon mechanical preparation is necessary as routine in medical care?

BACKGROUND The value of the preparation of the colon prior colorectal surgery remains debatable. Since installed as traditional the use of this routine, few studies have been conducted to support the safety of surgeries done without mechanical bowel preparation. AIM To determine if there is a correlation between postoperative complications and no use of mechanical bowel preparation in operate...