Search Tag: primary care physicians
After 5pm your doc may not screen you for cancer
2019 28 May
A new study endeavoured to research whether breast and colorectal cancer screening are related to the time of day a patient visits their primary care clinician. As part of this quality improvement study shows, both clinical ordering and patient completion of cancer screening tests decreased later in the day. The study published in JAMA found that... Read more
The lab of the future
2018 25 Jan
T e c h n o l o g y i s ch a n g i n g t h e f a ce o f m e d i c a l l a bo r a t o r y o p er a t i o n. As healthca r e t echnology advan c es, medical labo r atories need to k eep ahead of th e... Read more
Predicting Patient Hospitalisation: PCPs vs. Algorithms
2017 18 Apr
A new study shows that primary care physicians (PCPs) were as effective as commonly used predictive algorithms in identifying patients at high risk for hospitalisation. According to the study, published in American Journal of Managed Care, PCPs know the clinical and psychosocial needs of patients, enabling them to help identify factors missed by predictive... Read more
Greater Primary Care Physician Involvement, Less Costly, Less intensive care
2017 11 Jan
According to new research by Claire K. Ankuda, MD, MPH, with the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Michagan Health System in Ann Arbor, and colleagues, regions that have greater primary care physician involvement during the last six months of life tend to have lower intensity, lower-cost end-of-life care. The research... Read more