We were unable to find any published studies regarding which combinations of physician organization (PO) characteristics and medical management capabilities are currently associated with effective inpatient bed-day management.
Eighteen youth-onset (age 1 18 years) diabetes case definition algorithms were evaluated using combinations of physician, hospital and drug use data over 1, 2, and 3 years (Table 1).
Cost-effectiveness of five combinations of physician recommendation and telephone or in-person individualized counseling strategies for increasing compliance with mammographic screening was examined by Saywell et al. Besides an increase in mammography rate, the intention to screen was measured [ 24].
These teams typically include a combination of physicians, nurses, case managers, pharmacists, and community-based peer health promoters (HPs).
Most programmes reported or proposed that clinical teams (comprising some combination of physicians, clinical officers, nurses, counsellors, pharmacists and lab technicians) have 7 to 20 staff to treat 1000 patients on ART, although the composition of the teams varied considerably.
Assessment of endpoints will be achieved using a combination of physician and patient report and record linkage to routinely collected health data.
We also found that the combination of physician responses and our model showed good prediction of the estimated risk, at least as measured by the concordance index.
Diagnosis was confirmed by a diabetologist or neurologist in 30.1% and 28.3% of cases, respectively, followed by primary care physicians (24.8%); the remaining 16.8% of cases were confirmed by other physician specialties or a combination of physician types.
Examples: "The combination of physician and researcher in this program is a great addition to my education, to get the complete picture of illness, health and the human being as a whole.
Those who received the combination of physician-delivered counseling and office support lost significantly more weight (2.3 kg) at one year than those in usual care (0.0 kg; P < 0.001).
A combination of physician and computer-acquired histories, in non-emergent situations, with the latter available to the physician at the time he or she sees the patient, is a far superior method for collecting historical data than the physician interview alone.
