This article evaluates the impact of private allegations of malpractice against cardiac surgeons on their patients’ outcomes and characteristics. While tort law may impact observable physician costs, malpractice allegations also impose hidden costs that could also affect physician behavior. We employ a large and multi-year panel dataset and patient-level analysis to ascertain whether malpractic...

OBJECTIVES To assess whether physicians know of Washington State's prehospital do-not-resuscitate (DNR) policy, 6 years after its implementation. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING Washington State, April 2001. PARTICIPANTS Four hundred seventy-one practicing physicians. MEASUREMENTS Multivariate logistic regression was used to determine relationships between physician and practice ...

In the face of increasing costs and decreasing reimbursements, many physicians are working harder and making less money. Not all physicians are content working harder for less income. Physicians have chosen other avenues in order to enhance their income. Various ancillary services such as dexa scans and ultrasound studies are being done in physician offices rather than in hospitals. These metho...

Academic detailing (AD) has been defined as a form of continuing medical education in which a trained health professional (physician or pharmacist) visits physicians in their offices to provide evidence-based information about medicines and therapeutics.1 Academic detailing is common in developed countries. In Nepal however, it is not at all common, so a pilot study to determine the impact of A...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS (1) To determine the characteristics of outpatient otolaryngology offices with an electronic medical record (EMR) system, and (2) to compare those characteristics with the trends in surgical and medical specialties. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of U.S. representative data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS). METHODS The 2005 to 2010 NAMCS ...

In the May 2012 issue of Medical Laboratory Observer; I had the honor to provide readers with the first four of nine sales principles for field representatives who have the responsibility of selling laboratory services to physician offices, hospitals, and other healthcare organizations. Principle # 1 was "Strategy is the foundation." Principle # 2 was "Reps must first be sold themselves." Princ...

Overuse of injections is a common problem in many low-income and middle income countries. While cultural factors and attitudes of both physicians and patients are important factors, physicians› financial intensives may play an important role in overprescribing of injections. This study was designed to assess the effects of providing injection- services in physicians› ambulatory offices on presc...