Measurement was valued by front line, physician and leader respondents.
In particular, participants from all five sites reported that having front line (physician, nurse, pharmacist) representation on committees charged with establishing policies was essential to ensuring realistic approaches that would be acceptable to the clinical staff and dealing with problems that arose.
There is obviously a lot more to do to educate front-line physicians in what signs to look for and what tests to administer.
The story is familiar, pitting front-line physicians (who favor long-term treatment when necessary) against insurance industry consultants (who favor, not surprisingly, short-term treatment).
A SELECT group of several hundred front-line physicians, nurses and other health-care workers will be vaccinated later this week against smallpox, the highly contagious virus that the government warns could be used as a bioterrorist weapon.
Technology can improve the diagnostic process by enhancing communication and providing decision support to busy front-line physicians.
For example, critical event leadership has different training needs from front-line physicians who in turn have different training needs from community-based practitioners.
Efforts are necessary to improve the dissemination of recommendations focusing on treatment and prevention strategies from the CDC and the AAP to the front-line physicians they are intended to reach.
After several years of experience with PUDs, we have demonstrated its reliability for goal-directed examinations aiming to answer brief and important clinical questions encountered by front-line physicians in the emergency setting [ 1, 6].
10 In keeping with the epistemological stance of interpretive description methods, data collection and analysis were conducted through the lens of a physician (AA-R), with a focus on information that would be pertinent to other front-line physicians.
