There are ways in which patients who leave the hospital against medical advice wind up paying for that decision. Being saddled with the full cost of their hospital stay, however, is not one of them. Insurance companies know this. Patients who walk out may know this. But many physicians, according to a study published in […]
Filed under: Primary Care on February 9th, 2012 | No Comments »
According to an investigation of GPs (general practitioners) in one region of South East England, burnout levels in UK general practice are high. The study is published in BMJ Open…
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Filed under: Primary Care on February 4th, 2012 | No Comments »
After a Pulse investigation uncovered several safety alerts within the Government’s NHS 111 pilots, as well as expressing concern that GP commissioners are being excluded from the rollout - the GPC has been prompted to call for the program to be put on hold…
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Filed under: Primary Care on February 1st, 2012 | No Comments »
According to BMJ Careers, In April 2012, 94.2% of the emerging clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in England will be able to take on primary care trust commissioning budgets as they passed the strategic health authority (SHA) risk assessment of their configuration. Just 5…
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Filed under: Primary Care on January 26th, 2012 | No Comments »
The impact of efforts by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to notify the general public and health care providers about unanticipated risks from approved medications has been “varied and unpredictable,” according to a systematic review of published studies about FDA warnings and alerts over the last 20 years…
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Filed under: Primary Care on January 24th, 2012 | No Comments »
Greater access to features of high-quality primary care - comprehensiveness, patient-centeredness and extended office hours - is associated with lower mortality, according to a new national UC Davis study…
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Filed under: Primary Care on January 13th, 2012 | No Comments »
A new study from the Economist Intelligence Unit on healthcare provision for an aging population showed that the overwhelming majority of surveyed health professionals (81%) is concerned about the way they will be treated when they grow old, and remain skeptical whether current policies to address demographic shift caused by an aging population are realistic, […]
Filed under: Primary Care on January 9th, 2012 | No Comments »
The lives of hundreds of women could be saved every year, thanks to a simple online calculator that could help GPs identify women most at risk of having ovarian cancer at a much earlier stage. Academics from The University of Nottingham and ClinRisk Ltd have developed a new QCancer algorithm using the UK QResearch database…
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Filed under: Primary Care on January 7th, 2012 | No Comments »
Patients are overwhelmingly interested in exploring the notes doctors write about them after an office visit, but doctors worry about the impact of such transparency on their patients and on their own workflow, a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) study suggests. In a study published in the Dec…
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Filed under: Primary Care on January 1st, 2012 | No Comments »
According to an article published in the Christmas issue published on bmj.com today, the phrase “obs stable” in hospital notes is vague and doesn’t accurately reveal the health status of the patient. The phrase can possibly mislead hospital staff and should not be used, instead observations should be written in full, argue Dr Gregory Scott […]
Filed under: Primary Care on December 22nd, 2011 | No Comments »