Does Your Doctor Matter? Doctor Quality and Patient Outcomes

Assessing Patient Management and Outcomes in Atrial Fibrillation: Does your Health Insurance Plan know more than your Doctor?

Assessing the landscape of any major public health challenge and the effectiveness of existing health care practices is a difficult proposition in any circumstance for health care planners and providers. To do so with relatively current health care data has not been a feasible reality. Too often health care planners have been relegated to use of venerable but dated clinical information. Equally...

How to Treat Your Doctor

YOUR DOCTOR. By a Family Doctor. (Published by The Associa"on of the British Pharmaceutical industry, Z4 pp., is., with illustrations by John ood.) This is a booklet which achieves its serious intention of showing patients practical ^ays to help their family doctors, and thus themselves, through a most amusing Series of cartoon drawings. It is full of excellent dos and don'ts. Examples include:...

Follow-Up Visits in Doctor-Patient Communication: The Vietnamese Case

In a “follow-up visit”, a patient seeks medical attention for an existing health problem. Using data from the Vietnamese public hospital system, we present a more nuanced analysis of follow-ups in health communication than the one currently available. To be specific, we discriminate between “same follow-ups”, in which the doctor is the same one as in the last visit, and “different follow-ups”, ...

DOES QUALITY AFFECT PATIENTS’ CHOICE OF DOCTOR? EVIDENCE FROM ENGLAND Short title: Quality and patients’ choice of doctor

This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1111/ecoj.12282 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. Accepted Date: 13-Jan-2014 Article T...

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