Institutional corruption in the health care sector has gained considerable attention during recent years, as it acknowledges the fact that service providers who are acting in accordance with the institutional and environmental settings can nevertheless undermine a health care system's purposes as a result of the (financial) conflicts of interest to which the service providers are exposed. The p...

objective: the ideal time to commence orthodontic treatment is very important. in iran, due to the widely distributed population and low number and uneven distribution of orthodontists, general dental practitioners (gdps) play an important role in proper treatment of occlusal and functional disorders and referring orthodontic patients to orthodontists. the purpose of this study was to assess th...

INTRODUCTION Private practitioners play a vital role in meeting the health needs of rural communities. However, the prospect of operating a private practice business in rural Australia seems to be increasingly unattractive, because many communities are forced to recruit salaried or overseas-trained doctors. This study focuses on rural practices as businesses whose viability influences their att...

This study sought to compare the rate of patient throughput by community health centre general practitioners (GPs) and their private practice fee-for-service counterparts. The study group comprised 44 community health centre GPs (out of an identified 51) in 16 community health centres; the control group comprised 268 GPs. Community health centre GPs were found to have significantly fewer consul...

Objective  The objective of this study was to estimate the impact of multidisciplinary (Multi-D) perinatal care conference (PCC) implementation in the private practice setting. Methods  After the initial 12-month period following implementation of the monthly PCC by private maternal-fetal medicine and neonatology practitioners, conference attendees were asked to completed a modified version of ...

With the limited availability of empirical and documented knowledge about the Iraqi primary healthcare (PHC) system, this study aimed to identify the main problems facing the Iraqi PHC system and the priorities for change. A qualitative study based on a self-administered questionnaire survey involving 46 primary care managers, public health professionals and academics was conducted in Erbil, Ir...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effect of the Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) for cesarean section due to Cephalopelvic Disproportion (CPD) on physician compliance, pregnancy outcomes and cesarean section rate. The study also wants to identify factors associated with physician non-compliance. MATERIAL AND METHOD 455 medical records of women undergoing a cesarean section due to CPD from January 1...

Dr. Wolff is a board-certified family physician in private practice in Cornelius, North Carolina. He finished his family practice residency in 1997. He has graciously consented to share stories from the trenches of primary care. While his practice diary is taken from actual patient encounters, the reader should be aware that some medication references may represent off-label uses. Identifying d...

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the effectiveness of a freestanding intensive outpatient program (IOP) in a private practice setting for the treatment of dual diagnosis substance-abusing patients. Preand post-treatment Symptom Checklist 90–Revised, Global Assessment of Functioning, and patient functional rating scales were analyzed. Reliable change indices and clinically significant...

relation to their workload."' Doctors in general practice may be salaried, paid on a capitation basis, or paid per item of service or per patient treated-or they may be paid by a combination of these methods. In the Netherlands, for example, the health insurance schemes fix an earnings target for general practitioners and calculate the capitation payment to provide 70% of this target. The assum...