Primary care provider type

Patient preference in primary care provider type.

BACKGROUND Given the growing roles of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs), patients are increasingly able to choose their primary care provider type. Studies examining patient preferences among provider types are limited and ours is the first to examine reasons for patients' provider type preferences. METHODS Using data from the 2014 Association of American Medical Colleg...

Nutrition for the primary care provider

This book focuses on the various nutritional aspects of the current needs of the society at large and for the health practitioners. The book covers a variety of topics in a lucid manner under four distinct sections namely ‘Nutrition for Health’, ‘Nutrition for Special Circumstances’, ‘Nutrition for Disease States’, and ‘Food Policy’. The first section comprises 10 chapters on various aspects of...

Primary care patient and provider preferences for diabetes care managers

PURPOSE The collaborative care model, using care managers, has been shown to be effective in achieving sustained treatment outcomes in chronic disease management. Little effort has been made to find out patient preferences for chronic disease care, hence, we conducted a study aimed at identifying these. METHODS A 20-item questionnaire, asking for patients' and providers' preferences and perce...

Will the real primary care provider please stand up?

Primary Medical Care Provider Accreditation (PMCPA): pilot evaluation.

BACKGROUND While practice-level or team accreditation is not new to primary care in the UK and there are organisational indicators in the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) organisational domain, there is no universal system of accreditation of the quality of organisational aspects of care in the UK. AIM To describe the development, content and piloting of version 1 of the Primary Medical C...