Specialists Understanding of the Health Care Preferences of Chronically Ill Adolescents
April 1, 2007 | Journal Article
Patient-centered health care promotes improved health outcomes and satisfaction with care.
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Patient Experiences with Coordination of Care
March 3, 2009 | Journal Article
Continuity of care with the same primary care physician (PCP), and with the PCP as referral source, were both associated with higher coordination ratings.
The Impact of International Medical Graduate Status on Primary Care Physicians' Choice of Specialist
August 1, 2004 | Journal Article
About one fourth of practicing physicians in the United States graduated from medical schools in other countries. While much attention has been given to their role in the physician workforce, less attention has been given to the impact international ...
The Costs and Adequacy of Safety Net Access for the Uninsured: Buncombe County (Asheville), North Carolina
June 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The health care safety net is commonly referred to but less frequently defined. Throughout this area of our Web site, we use the term to include health care providers that deliver care in a variety of settings to a diverse group of people. These pro ...
The Effect of Different Attribution Rules on Individual Physician Cost Profiles
May 18, 2010 | Journal Article
When a patient sees multiple doctors, health plan and government analysts use different rules to assign primary responsibility to a single physician. This article presents a study that examined how those rules affect a physician's cost profile (e.g., high cost or low cost).
Physician Cost Profiling
March 18, 2010 | Journal Article
This article examines the accuracy of tools to identify lower-cost physicians. Many proposed health reforms rely on the identification of physicians who provide lower-cost services for a given condition. However, no rigorous evaluation has assessed whether the tools used to identify lower-cost physicians are accurate.