Download or read book Changing Physician Practice Patterns written by Elaine Zablocki and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 1995 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource provides a concise overview of the techniques used to change physician behavior in a health industry ruled by newly-formed networks & under increasing pressure to remain cost-efficient, often in a capitated environment.Techniques used by managed care organizations from across the country will be highlighted.Topical summaries on key issues will include how to develop practice guidelines, how to win physician support, data gathering, liability issues, & probably most important, how to get started.
Download or read book An Intervention to Change Physician Practice Patterns written by Gregory Michael Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Information to Guide Physician Practice written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I m Sorry I Don t Make House Calls written by Rebecca Sarah Rothenberg and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Physician Profiling Performance written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.
Download or read book Evidence Based Medicine and the Changing Nature of Health Care written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-09-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the work of the Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine, the 2007 IOM Annual Meeting assessed some of the rapidly occurring changes in health care related to new diagnostic and treatment tools, emerging genetic insights, the developments in information technology, and healthcare costs, and discussed the need for a stronger focus on evidence to ensure that the promise of scientific discovery and technological innovation is efficiently captured to provide the right care for the right patient at the right time. As new discoveries continue to expand the universe of medical interventions, treatments, and methods of care, the need for a more systematic approach to evidence development and application becomes increasingly critical. Without better information about the effectiveness of different treatment options, the resulting uncertainty can lead to the delivery of services that may be unnecessary, unproven, or even harmful. Improving the evidence-base for medicine holds great potential to increase the quality and efficiency of medical care. The Annual Meeting, held on October 8, 2007, brought together many of the nation's leading authorities on various aspects of the issues - both challenges and opportunities - to present their perspectives and engage in discussion with the IOM membership.
Download or read book Physician Practice in a Dynamic Environment written by Paul Fronstin and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expenditures on physician services amounted to $171 billion in 1993, compared with $13.6 billion in 1970. During this period, the environment in which physicians practice was transformed as a part of the changing health care financing and delivery system. This Issue Brief provides an overview of changes in the health care system that affect the environment in which physicians practice, focusing on what is known and issues needing further analysis.Public and private payers have held down the rate of growth in payments to physicians by restructuring reimbursement. Physician behavior, payment, and practice patterns will be major factors in determining future health care costs and the type and quality of health care individuals receive.In both the private and public sectors, one of the significant changes affecting physician practice patterns has been the movement of insured individuals away from traditional retrospective fee-for-service reimbursement to a prepaid prospective managed care setting. As a result, physicians are more likely to contract with a managed care organization.The way in which physicians are reimbursed for outpatient Medicare services has changed significantly as a result of OBRA '89, which adopted a fee schedule based on a resource based relative value scale coupled with volume performance standards. These changes were designed to eliminate the incentive for physicians to increase service volume.The distribution of physicians across specializations changed significantly between 1970 and 1992. In 1970, 17.3 percent of physicians were practicing family and general medicine, compared with 11 percent in 1992.Recently, a larger proportion of physicians has joined group practices, and the average size of a group practice has increased. In 1975, 23.5 percent of physicians worked in a group practice, compared with 32.6 percent in 1991. Between 1975 and 1991, the average size of a group practice increased from 7.9 physicians to 11.5 physicians.The U.S. physician-to-population ratio has been growing since at least 1970. In 1992, there were 255 physicians per 100,000 Americans, up from 161 in 1970. Among physicians with office-based practices, there were 209 physicians per 100,000 Americans in 1992, compared with 134 in 1970.
Download or read book For Profit Enterprise in Health Care written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This book is] the most authoritative assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of recent trends toward the commercialization of health care," says Robert Pear of The New York Times. This major study by the Institute of Medicine examines virtually all aspects of for-profit health care in the United States, including the quality and availability of health care, the cost of medical care, access to financial capital, implications for education and research, and the fiduciary role of the physician. In addition to the report, the book contains 15 papers by experts in the field of for-profit health care covering a broad range of topicsâ€"from trends in the growth of major investor-owned hospital companies to the ethical issues in for-profit health care. "The report makes a lasting contribution to the health policy literature." â€"Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
Download or read book Guidelines for Clinical Practice written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guidelines for the clinical practice of medicine have been proposed as the solution to the whole range of current health care problems. This new book presents the first balanced and highly practical view of guidelinesâ€"their strengths, their limitations, and how they can be used most effectively to benefit health care. The volume offers: Recommendations and a proposed framework for strengthening development and use of guidelines. Numerous examples of guidelines. A ready-to-use instrument for assessing the soundness of guidelines. Six case studies exploring issues involved when practitioners use guidelines on a daily basis. With a real-world outlook, the volume reviews efforts by agencies and organizations to disseminate guidelines and examines how well guidelines are functioningâ€"exploring issues such as patient information, liability, costs, computerization, and the adaptation of national guidelines to local needs.
Download or read book Doctors Decisions and the Cost of Medical Care written by John Meyer Eisenberg and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an introduction to the research that has elucidated the reasons doctors practice the way they do and make the decisions they do. It reviews the complex array of motivations in medical practice. The book also reviews the programs that have been used to change physicians' prescription of medical services, including education, feedback, participation, administrative rules, incentives, and penalties.1: Understanding variations in physicians' practice patterns. 2: Changing physicians' practice patterns. 3: Directions for research on physician utilization
Download or read book Medical Practice Patterns and Appropriateness of Care written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Physician Practice Patterns and Provider Perceptions of Need written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Physician Practice Patterns written by Health Visions Incorporated and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Physician Practice Patterns Within an Acute Care Facility written by Timothy C. McKee and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis presented a hypothesis that hospital cost reduction is possible in a case-based prospective payment environment by improving clinical productivity through changing the volume and mix of imput intermediate products. Potentially inappropriate intermediate product use can be identified through comparisons of different practice patterns that reflect how the intermediate products were combined to produce an inpatient episode of care. However, rather than investigating gross variation in intermediate product use, the variation must be differentiated into its two major components -- patient and physician. Variation in the volume and type of input intermediate products resulting from differences in physician practice styles is probably inappropriate. Before considering implementation of this cost reduction strategy, however, it had to be demonstrated that 1) practice patterns could be identified, 2) the different patterns could be associated with patient, physician, and outcome characteristics, and 3) individual physicians could be associated with the different patterns. The demonstration of the capability to accomplish these tasks was the major thrust of the research effort reported here. The current research had demonstrated that physician-associated practice pattern differences do exist within the demonstration hospital. Therefore, it is concluded that a cost reduction strategy based on improving clinical productivities through modification of inappropriate physician practice styles is feasible.
Download or read book The Influence of Patient Focused Care on Physician Practice Patterns written by James Terwilliger and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Changing Face of Medicine written by Ann K. Boulis and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The number of women practicing medicine in the United States has grown steadily since the late 1960s, with women now roughly at parity with men among entering medical students. Why did so many women enter American medicine? How are women faring, professionally and personally, once they become physicians? Are women transforming the way medicine is practiced? To answer these questions, The Changing Face of Medicine draws on a wide array of sources, including interviews with women physicians and surveys of medical students and practitioners. The analysis is set in the twin contexts of a rapidly evolving medical system and profound shifts in gender roles in American society. Throughout the book, Ann K. Boulis and Jerry A. Jacobs critically examine common assumptions about women in medicine. For example, they find that women's entry into medicine has less to do with the decline in status of the profession and more to do with changes in women's roles in contemporary society. Women physicians' families are becoming more and more like those of other working women. Still, disparities in terms of specialty, practice ownership, academic rank, and leadership roles endure, and barriers to opportunity persist. Along the way, Boulis and Jacobs address a host of issues, among them dual-physician marriages, specialty choice, time spent with patients, altruism versus materialism, and how physicians combine work and family. Women's presence in American medicine will continue to grow beyond the 50 percent mark, but the authors question whether this change by itself will make American medicine more caring and more patient centered. The future direction of the profession will depend on whether women doctors will lead the effort to chart a new course for health care delivery in the United States.
