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NewsPatient satisfaction equal for physician, hospitalist care
Patients reported similar satisfaction scores for hospital care provided by primary care physicians and hospitalists, according to a study published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine. Read more...
Hospitals adding urgent care clinics to relieve overcrowding, doc shortage
Hospitals trying to ease strained emergency rooms (ERs) and to overcome a lack of primary care physicians are embracing urgent care centers, report Kaiser Health News and USA Today. They increasingly Read more...
Docs admit malpractice fears lead to overly aggressive care
Doctors admit to being part of the healthcare problem, fessing up that they provide too much medical care in a nationwide survey published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. They said malpractice Read more...
State limits non-urgent ER vists to save $34M
Hospitals have been trying different tactics to reduce emergency room (ER) visits. Now, state governments are getting in on the act by restricting the number of government-insured patients who can Read more...
Work hours to affect primary care shortage
In the midst of a national physician shortage, researchers at the University of California, Davis, found that long or short work hours in certain specialities may affect primary care, according to a Read more...
Mystery shoppers to examine primary care availability
With primary care doctors still in short supply, the Obama administration has decided to use "mystery shoppers" to pose as patients and see how difficult it is to access care. The secret shopper Read more...
Hospitals woo private-practice PCPs into employed hospitalist roles
Hospitals are luring primary care physicians away from their private practices to instead work as employed physicians of hospitals, reports The Washington Post. Health systems, including Inova Health Read more...
Greater use of primary care can reduce deaths, hospitalizations
As the primary-care workforce continues to be strained, new research shows that areas with higher levels of primary care have fewer patient deaths and preventable hospitalizations, according to a Read more...
Fewer tests, less antibiotics improve primary care
If primary-care doctors want to improve the quality of care and save limited clinical resources, they need look no further than the top five treatment recommendations from the National Physicians Read more...
Upstate New York starts medical home network
Six health plans in the Hudson Valley area of upstate New York have pitched in $1.5 million to organize its enrollees into medical homes, reports Healthcare Finance News. Aetna, Hudson Health Plan, Read more...
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