Encouraged by the Affordable Care Act, ACOs typically comprise a set of physicians -- specialists and primary care doctors -- and hospitals that work collaboratively and accept some of the financial risk of providing care to a particular population of patients.
Brenner got a social worker to help Hendricks apply for disability insurance, so that he could leave the chaos of welfare motels, and have access to a consistent set of physicians.
To account for correlated observations within the multivariable model, we defined each set of attending physicians and housestaff as a group for the purposes of estimating a correlation matrix for the GEE.
This is not surprising, because study patients were associated with a convenience set of three physicians, and were not selected at random across multiple sites within the health system.
This method allows us to ascertain how trainees ask focused histories, offer practical advice based upon the variable skill set of referring physicians, and deal with complex ethical decisions (for example, if a family wishes to override a patient's previous wish; or how aggressively to treat the terminal patient for whom no prior discussions have occurred).
There is, for instance, a hint from his cancer specialist at New York Hospital that if the Shah had been treated like an ordinary patient with the same set of physicians from the onset of his illness, he might be alive today.
In order to change the drugs physicians prescribe, the evoked set of physicians has to be changed, or its role in decision making should be changed.
Additionally, this study was a web-based survey in which the responses were obtained from a homepage; this clearly indicates that the set of physicians accessing the homepage were not representative of the typical Japanese physician population [ 12].
As long ago as 1980, he points out, a report from two royal colleges – of physicians and surgeons – set out guidelines for hospitals undertaking children's heart surgery.
These considerations were partly taken into account by the Belgian Committee of Medical Supply Planning who recently decided to progressively enlarge the production of physicians and to set minimal numbers for less attractive options.
