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August 1, 2006 | Journal Article
Most physicians and hospitals are paid the same regardless of the quality of the health care they provide, but increasing numbers of health programs link payment to physician and hospital performance as an incentive to improve the quality of care. T ...
June 1, 2007 | Journal Article
Lessons from Social-Cognitive Psychology
October 1, 2007 | Journal Article
This paper is aimed at junior clinical researchers and addresses time management issues associated with balancing the competing demands of academic medicine. The authors identify a number of strategies, including: figuring out which goals are the mo ...
September 1, 2006 | Journal Article
Although brief primary care alcohol counseling has been shown to benefit patients with alcohol misuse and providers generally believe that addressing alcohol misuse is an important clinical responsibility, rates of alcohol counseling are low. This q ...
December 1, 2006 | Journal Article
Long-term maintenance care is needed to prevent recurrence of problematic alcohol use, yet primary care physicians receive little guidance about working with patients who have moderated or stopped their drinking. In the present pilot study, the auth ...
April 19, 2005 | Journal Article
This article discusses the essential role of primary care within the United States from a systems view. Three general functions of the primary care system are discussed including triage of undifferentiated symptoms, improving the efficiency and appr ...
April 19, 2005 | Journal Article
The complexity of the United States health care delivery system presents specific difficulties for the provision of coordinated care. In 2003, the RWJF Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars program began a review of the state of coordinated care and implications for the future of generalist research, education and practice.
July 1, 2002 | Program Result
From November 1993 to February 1994, Timothy Bell & Company identified key communication strategies and messages to help change the generalist/specialist mix in the physician workforce.
July 15, 2009 | Program Result
The Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program awarded four-year career development grants to junior faculty in family medicine, general internal medicine and general pediatrics.
July 1, 2002 | Program Result
The University of Chicago Center for Health Administration Studies developed and published two papers: one on barriers to primary care training in internal medicine and the other on a comparison of major databases on graduate medical education.