Crohn's disease is an inflammatory bowel of unclear etiology, associated with excessive immune response stages remission and activation. It can affect the entire gastrointestinal tract from mouth to anus; most frequent symptoms are abdominal pain diarrhea. The impact that lifestyle modification good treatment have on patient's life so crucial primary care physicians must learn recognize it not ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the average primary care physician consultation length in economically developed and low-income/middle-income countries, and to examine the relationship between consultation length and organisational-level economic, and health outcomes. DESIGN AND OUTCOME MEASURES This is a systematic review of published and grey literature in English, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Portugu...

The care of hospitalized children has become increasingly complex and intense and often involves multiple physicians beyond the traditional primary care attending physician. Pediatric and adult subspecialists and surgeons, teaching attending physicians, and hospitalists may all participate in the care of hospitalized children. This report summarizes the responsibilities of the primary care phys...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The US public is increasingly using online rating sites to make decisions about a variety of consumer goods and services, including physicians. We sought to understand, within the context of other types of rating sites, parents' awareness, perceptions, and use of physician-rating sites for choosing primary care physicians for their children. METHODS This cross-section...

WHATEVER FORM IT TAKES, HEALTH CARE REform will increase the number of Americans covered by health insurance. But there is concern that the legislation will not bend the cost curve—that is, will not reduce the growth of health care costs so that it more closely resembles the growth of the US gross domestic product (GDP). Currently, health care consumes about 16% of the GDP; advocates of bending...