24 30 Initiatives that linked physician reimbursement with adherence to guidelines were seen as a threat to GPs' ability to deliver patient-centred care.
The physicians in our study linked physician personality to performance where the majority felt that being Type A makes one a better doctor and identifying with any of the three personalities was correlated with feeling it enhanced professional performance.
To the Editor: Bill Keller cites a central argument against linking physicians' pay to patient outcomes, like readmissions for heart failure.
John Cornyn, the attorney general of Texas, said the agreement would curtail financial incentives that "tempt doctors to deny necessary medical care" by linking physicians' incomes to holding down costs.
Soon, its executives promise, it will link physicians around the world in specialized discussion groups.
News Corp. will provide $700 million in branding services over 10 years to Healtheon/WebMD, which links physicians and consumers with healthcare institutions, and will purchase $100 million of Healtheon/WebMD stock at $50 per share.
There is a need for more empirical studies linking physicians' communication skills to patient outcomes specifically for Japanese population.
San Francisco, moreover, traditionally has a strong gay grass-roots HIV movement and a political HIV commitment among physicians, possibly linking physicians there very close to their patients.
We have established a telemedicine program linking physicians in Boston, MA, USA with City Hospital #8 in Lviv, Ukraine to improve care in pediatric and adult burn patients.
Moreover, such comparisons with reference data from clinical studies allow linking physicians' behaviour to illness probabilities and therefore allow examining (implicit) decision thresholds.
