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Primary Care / General Practice News From Medical News Today
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Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day.
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OpEds: Health Costs And New Law; Penn. Doctor Supply; Anesthesiologists Vs. Nurses
Healthcare Reforms Don't Go Far Enough The Los Angeles TimesSome sort of Medicare-for-all program remains the only equitable way that every American can be provided with adequate and affordable coverage. This wouldn't be socialized medicine and it wouldn't be state-run healthcare (David Lazarus, 9/7). Despite Reform, Health Costs Are Still On The Rise The (Wilmington, Del...
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Study: Malpractice Costs $55.6 Billion Annually, Most In Defensive Medicine
An analysis by the journal Health Affairs has found that $55.6 billion, 2.4 percent of all annual health spending, is spent on medical malpractice, reports Modern Healthcare. "The estimate includes defensive-medicine activities, such as ordering tests or treatments ... which alone costs an estimated $45.6 billion per year, the study found. ...
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Iowa Lawmakers Should Update Abortion Laws To Accommodate Use Of Telemedicine, Editorial Says
By using telemedicine to dispense abortion medication, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland is applying the technology "as it was intended: to expand access to legal health services in rural Iowa," the Des Moines Register states in an editorial...
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Studies Examine Health Care Use, Quality
News outlets offered a variety of articles about health care use and quality. The New York Times: A new study finds "that more than half of the 354 million doctor visits made each year for acute medical care, like for fevers, stomachaches and coughs, are not with a patient's primary physician, and that more than a quarter take place in hospital emergency rooms...
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Health Law Rollout Effects: Delivering 'Accountable' Care, Device Tax, Nursing Mothers
Today's updates on the continuing implementation of the health law include Medicare chief Don Berwick's behind the scenes push for 'accountable care organizations,' tax anxiety in the medical device industry, and the promise of new help for pregnant women...
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Hospitals Hire To Keep Up With Growing Diversity, Tech Challenges
"As more immigrants crowd its waiting rooms, Elmhurst Hospital is joining a growing number of hospitals in New York and across the country that are going beyond hiring interpreters and offering translated paperwork and are adopting practices intended to improve care for an increasingly diverse patient population," The New York Times reports...
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Characteristics Of Patient Panels Appear Associated With Quality Ratings Of Primary Care Physicians
Patients panels (used to rate the quality of care of physicians) with greater proportions of underinsured, minority and non-English speaking patients were associated with lower physician quality rankings, according to a study in the September 8 issue of JAMA. Physicians have increasingly become the focus of quality performance measurement...
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Millions Fail To Get Through To Local GPs - Millions Pay Their NHS GP For Telephone Access, UK
Network Europe Group has just released research "Millions Fail to Get Through to Local GPs" which suggests that 20 Million patient calls to GPs receive engaged tone, whilst 5 Million always join a queue as a result of calling the expensive 0844 numbers it uses for its "Surgery Line" system...
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More Than A Quarter Of All Acute Care Visits In US Now Made To Emergency Departments
Only 45 percent of the 354 million annual visits for acute care in the United States are made to patients' personal physicians, as Americans increasingly make busy emergency departments, specialists or outpatient care departments their first point of contact for treatment of new health problems or a flare up of a chronic condition like asthma or diabetes...
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US Patients Going Straight To Emergency Department, Bypassing Personal Physicians
Every wondered why emergency departments in the USA are so crowded? The answer seems to be in people's changing behaviors over the last few years...
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