Sentence examples for practitioners compared with from inspiring English sources

A 1997 Harvard study reported that Americans made 629 million visits to alternative practitioners compared with 386 million visits to primary care doctors, spending $27 billion (a good part of it out of pocket) on alternative treatments.

The Medical Board [ 25] lists just over 91,000 medical practitioners compared with 70,231 from the census and the Nursing Board [ 26] data list more than 300,000 nurses compared with the approximately 240,000 in the census data.

Overall, 189/236 (81%) of the control group were either specialists or general practitioners compared with only 29/59 (49%) of the cases (odds ratio for difference 4.16, 95% confidence interval 2.8 to 7.6, P<0.001, unmatched χ analysis).

A change to the payment formula in 2009 resulted in an increase in the average impact of random variation in patient scores on payments to general practitioners compared with payments made in 2007 and 2008.

Furthermore, regression modelling and kriging techniques require good judgement, experience, and expertise by the practitioner compared with IDW with its more rudimentary approach.

Our study highlights that in Europe more patients were seen in primary care by a general practitioner, compared with 32% seen by internists for primary care in Latin America.

It is noteworthy that as little as 3% of ambulance workers had visited an occupational health practitioner, compared with 24% of the general working population.

The images produced by the assistant practitioner were slightly less likely to be symmetrical, but otherwise there was no significant difference in the quality of the images produced by the assistant practitioner compared with those produced by the radiographers.

Likewise, a French study based on a self-questionnaire completed by practitioners compared actual practices with TB management guidelines[ 3].

The reported incidence of ACS or angina pectoris in patients with ACP ranges between 4.8% and 12% in those seeking their general practitioners, 9 12 compared with up to 24% in patients presenting to University Hospital emergency units.

A current concern is whether or not visiting specialists improve access and health outcomes, and change the nature of referrals from primary care practitioners, when compared with hospital-based services alone.