BACKGROUND Some doubt the desirability and cost-effectiveness of continuing to provide an expanded scope of primary care practice. Additionally, there has been concern about declining reimbursement from Medicaid and Medicare. Although an expanded scope of patient care services are required for training, we wanted to determine whether these services drain resources and time from other primary ca...

OFFICETECH® is a startup company providing office assistance over the Internet. It certifies assistants’ skills, matches them with potential clients, supervises the quality of the work done, and provides software tools for online collaboration. The founder, Gayle Barr, believed that this type of assistance would soon be the predominant model due to a convergence of several trends. First, advanc...

Evidence that poor oral health is connected to poor systemic health has grown over the last decade. Children with dental caries often face pain and nutritional problems, and caries build the foundation for adult dental disease. In adults, periodontitis, or deep inflammation of the gingiva, is strongly linked to poor diabetes control and is associated with vascular disease, arthritis, obesity, a...

From the Medical-Surgical Group, Office of Patient Care Services (R.G.D.), and the Office of Public Health and Environmental Hazards (M.J.H.), Veterans Health Administration, Washington, D.C.; and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Md. (D.G.B., H.R.C.). Address reprint requests to Dr. DePalma at the Office of Patient Care Services, Veterans Health Administration...

OBJECTIVE This report assesses the impact of a series of education sessions delivered to office staff on the delivery of smoking cessation services among patients seeking care at a community-based women's health center. METHODS A quasi-experimental design was used to examine the delivery of smoking cessation services to patients in a medical office before and after office staff attended a ser...

IMPORTANCE Recent governmental and private initiatives have sought to reduce health care costs by making health care prices more transparent. OBJECTIVE To determine whether the use of an employer-sponsored private price transparency platform was associated with lower claims payments for 3 common medical services. DESIGN Payments for clinical services provided were compared between patients ...

Organization/ Association APICS The Association for Operations Management Purchasing Management Association of Canada (PMAC) National Institute of Governmental Purchasing, Inc. (NIGP) Universal Public Purchasing Certification Council (UPPCC) Procurement, Materiel Management and Real Property (PMMRP) Community Management Office, Acquired Services and Assets Sector (ASAS), Office of the Comptroll...

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention www.ojjdp.gov 1 Suggested Reference: Development Services Group, Inc. 2016. “Family Drug Courts.” Literature review. Washington, D.C.: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. https://www.ojjdp.gov/mpg/litreviews/Family_Drug_Courts.pdf Prepared by Development Services Group, Inc., under cooperative agreement number 2013–JF–FX–K...

OBJECTIVE To test the impact of physician education and facilitator assisted office system interventions on cancer early detection and preventive services. DESIGN A randomised trial of two interventions alone and in combination. SETTING AND SUBJECTS Physicians in 98 ambulatory care practices in the United States. INTERVENTIONS The education intervention consisted of a day long physician m...