Primary Care Provider's Guide to Cardiology.

Wheelchair Transfer: A Health Care Provider's Guide.

Evaluation and Preparation of Pediatric Patients Undergoing Anesthesia

Primary health care providers should play a leading role in the medical evaluation and psychological preparation of children before surgery or other procedures requiring anesthesia. The provider's goal is to ensure that the child's medical issues are clearly defined and that the physiologic impact and limitations imposed by each condition are well delineated. The primary care provider's knowled...

African American patients' perspectives on medical decision making.

BACKGROUND The medical literature offers little information about how older African Americans view the medical decision-making process. We sought to describe the perspectives of older African American patients in a primary care clinic as they consider a medical decision. METHODS We interviewed 25 African American patients older than 50 years who had discussed flexible sigmoidoscopy with their...

Health Care Disparities and Diabetes Care: Practical Considerations for Primary Care Providers.

Disparities in diabetes care are prevalent in the United States. This article provides an overview of these disparities and discusses both potential causes and efforts to address them to date. The authors focus the discussion on aspects relevant to the patient-provider dyad and provide practical considerations for the primary care provider's role in helping to diminish and eliminate disparities...

Does increased standardisation in health care mean less responsiveness towards individual patients’ expectations? A register-based study in Swedish primary care

OBJECTIVE We explore whether standardisation in health care based on evidence on group level and a public health perspective is in conflict with responsiveness towards individual patient's expectations in Swedish primary care. METHODS Using regression analysis, we study the association between patient views about providers' responsiveness and indicators reflecting provider's adherence to evid...