But Dr. Mark L. Harrison, the radiation oncologist in McAllen, Tex., who founded Urorad and is its chief executive, said the returns could be lucrative for large practices.
For example, the standard deviations for satisfaction on getting through on the phone were: 23.8% for small (< 2,000 patients) and 37.6% for large practices (> 10,000 patients).
Since healthcare providers are willing to use technologies that meet their needs, then the processes of selecting and buying, planning for implementation, and carrying out system implementation must be considered, especially for small practice settings, since to date, most vendor systems have largely been designed for larger practice environments.
In theory, it would be easier for small practices than for larger practices to increase their numbers of patients.
b) For larger practices (consisting of three or more partners) – sampling (stratified by age and total number of drugs) was undertaken if there were more than 200 eligible patients.
Using its stock as currency, MedPartners can pay a nice premium for a large practice like Mullikin's and still see its earnings per share go up.
The other four studies found no empirical evidence for association between large practice size and early adoption of new drugs whether size was measured by total prescribing volume [ 5, 21], by volume of prescribing within the therapeutic class of the new drug [ 21], by number of doctors [ 16, 36], or by number of patients [ 16, 21].
Patients in profile 2 and profile 3 were difficult to distinguish; the only clear difference was the age range and medication usage, with the youngest patients and patients with no diabetes medication classified in profile 2. Although corrected for patient and disease characteristics, large practice variance still existed with regards to profile membership.
Several years ago, Mr. Plompen said, a drug company purchased lunch from his truck for the entire staff of a large practice in the building.
In summary, older patients and patients visiting larger practices tended to be more demanding, especially in terms of accessibility and availability, of professional attire (for older patients) and of equipment (for patients visiting large practices), though the association decreased for the vast majority of the items in multivariate analyses.
