Sentence examples for routine physicians from inspiring English sources

So the American College of Physicians offers this guidance to doctors: "Rather than screening all men for prostate cancer as a matter of routine, physicians should describe the potential benefits and known harms of screening, diagnosis and treatment, listen to the patient's concerns and then individualize the decision to screen".

When a treatment becomes routine, physicians have a moral imperative to provide it and patients feel entitled to it [ 77].

In other words, routine physician-patient communication differs between primary-care physicians who have and have not been required to defend prior malpractice claims.

However, the accompanying editorial (Brennan, 2000) raised several appropriate still unanswered questions: 'Is routine physician-directed follow-up justified if 50% of relapses are detected between regular visits?

Her activities outside her home consisted of weekly hair salon appointments, routine physician visits, lunch outings with friends, weekly church attendance, visiting another church for a Christmas fair, and voting at the town hall.

Medically significant conditions were defined as (serious) adverse events unrelated to common diseases (including upper respiratory infections, sinusitis, pharyngitis, gastroenteritis, urinary tract infections, cervicovaginal yeast infections, menstrual cycle abnormalities, and injury), or unrelated to routine physician visits.

A major strength of these particular databases compared with other Canadian and US sources is the fact that we can distinguish hospital separations from emergency department visits and from routine physician visits.

To address the limitations of traditional indicators, we propose a novel severity index based on influenza age dynamics estimated from routine physician diagnosis data that can be used retrospectively and for early warning.

The potential disadvantage of using any mathematical model for interpreting cause of death is that some subtlety and nuance may be lost as compared to routine physician certification of cause of death (either from attending physicians or from physicians coding individual VA cases).

During a physician's clinical practice, a mobile electronic medical record means the use of a mobile device (such as a tablet computer, laptop, mobile phone or PDA) that can be taken on rounds, used during inspections and consultations, used for enquiries about physician orders and prescriptions, and for the performance of other routine physician duties.

As a pragmatic trial, this study had very broad inclusion criteria (age and eligibility for CRC screening) representative of the "typical" patient seen by family physicians in daily clinical practice, with little (if any) intervention in the routine physician-patient interaction.