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June 1, 2010 | Report
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 ...
October 15, 2001 | Program Result
Six health workforce initiatives collaboratively convened the symposium, "Primary Care Education for the 21st Century: Lessons from National Initiatives," on September 24-26, 1998, in Baltimore, Md.
August 1, 2000 | Program Result
The Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) developed a supplement to the Journal of General Internal Medicine on the role of the physician in managed care, which was published in January 1999.
September 1, 2000 | Program Result
From 1994 through 1997, the American Medical Association conducted a series of national surveys of residency program directors and graduating residents about the career opportunities of resident physicians.
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 ...
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).
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.
July 15, 2010 | Program Result
The Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention updated educational information and tools in a revised tobacco cessation treatment guideline, created new ones, and disseminated them to clinicians and consumers to spur the guideline's widespread use.
September 30, 2009 | Program Result
From November 2006 to May 2009, investigators at the Medical College of Wisconsin helped six medical schools develop educational programs for palliative care and trained faculty at those schools to teach in the field.
August 20, 2009 | News Release
New Mexico's Project ECHO offers solution to health care worker shortage while improving health outcomes for poor patients with serious chronic diseases.