c Two participants reported being diagnosed by multiple physicians and are therefore counted in the Other category.
Nearly all patients had numerous consultations with multiple physicians and others in addition to their surgeon, for example, radiation oncologists, psychiatrists and nutritionists.
While infrequent, this condition desires clinical attention because patients usually visit multiple physicians and dentists seeking treatment and often claim that the treatment itself worsens their symptoms.
Increasing psoriasis severity was significantly associated with seeking care from multiple physicians and having decrements in income in this population [ 31].
However, as is typical of critical care practice, patients in our study were frequently cared for by multiple physicians (and other care providers)during their ICU stay.
In other words, it is difficult for the municipalities with small populations to maintain medical facilities employing multiple physicians, and it is impossible to evaluate the allocation of medical care resources if the municipality is the spatial unit of analysis.
Identified barriers to effective shared engagement included constantly changing home care providers, the use of multiple physicians and pharmacies who did not communicate with each other, and a lack of client-friendly mechanisms such as home charts, education focussed visits, and shared care plans for households and providers to design safe medication strategies together.
In the acute care setting, PIM prescribing can be even more problematic due to multiple physicians and specialists who may be prescribing for a single patient as well as difficulty with medication reconciliation at transitions and limitations imposed by hospital formularies.
A root cause analysis showed multiple physician, system and patient factors.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — the 2009 stimulus — contained provisions to promote the expansion of electronic health records, which allow physicians to more closely track patients, especially the chronically ill, and enable the seamless exchange of data among multiple physicians, hospitals and other providers.
