Impending physician shortage needs decisive remediation.
نویسنده
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Does having more physicians lead to better health system performance?
THE US HEALTH SYSTEM FACES ONGOING CHALLENGES in addressing its shortcomings in access and quality. Against a foreground of uneven and fragmented care lies a bleak background of unrelentingly accelerating costs. Although the problems of quality and costs are long-standing, several organizations have recently asserted that there is a new impending health care “tragedy”: the physician workforce s...
متن کاملEconomic and demographic trends signal an impending physician shortage.
It is widely believed that the United States is producing too many physicians. We have approached this issue by developing a new model for workforce planning based on assessments of the macrotrends that underlie the supply and use of physician services. These trends include economic expansion, population growth, physicians' work effort, and the provision of services by nonphysician clinicians. ...
متن کاملThe critical care crisis in the United States: a report from the profession.
T he care of the critically ill patients accounts for 1% of the gross domestic product in the United States.1 The aging of the American population in the next 2 decades will increase the burden of acute and chronic illness and the demand for critical care services.2 The Leapfrog Group, a consortium of Fortune 500 companies, has identified critical care as a major factor in health-care quality.3...
متن کاملMedical school hotline: medical school affects the career location of pediatric resident graduates.
According to the Hawaiʻi Physician Workforce Assessment Project, Hawaiʻi currently has a physician shortage of 600, with an impending shortage of up to 1,600 physicians by the year 2020. A way to offset this growing situation is by supporting University of Hawaiʻi residency programs to train future physicians. To better understand the contributions that these residency programs make to the comm...
متن کاملIntegrated bariatric surgery residency
Obesity is a major public health concern. Given its lasting efficacy for improving obesity and obesity-related diseases, bariatric surgery is an increasingly common treatment option. As the implementation of the Affordable Care Act progresses, the impending physician shortage will become more severe. Thus there will be an even greater need for doctors specialized in the management and treatment...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید
ثبت ناماگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید
ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- WMJ : official publication of the State Medical Society of Wisconsin
دوره 102 8 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003