Physicians include all types of physicians: residents, physicians, specialists, and general practitioners.
Regarding the subgroup analysis by provider type, physicians' rates of appropriate overrides were higher than those of nurse practitioners with regard to drug type, prescription type, and override reason(s).
A concealed randomization procedure stratified by health center location and clinician type (physician, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant) is used to balance randomization between both groups.
Emergency care personnel use these scores to prioritize proper treatment and management, allocate the trauma center type, physician, and team, and guide decisions about treatment interventions.
Data included a unique de-identified patient number, gender, age, Aboriginal status, practitioner type (physician, nurse or dentist), consultation date, chlamydia and gonorrhoea testing and result.
Demographic and clinical measures included age, gender, health plan type, physician specialty, geographic region, comorbid conditions, Deyo-Charlson Comorbidity Index, and the index PPIs of the study subjects.
All three types of physicians were present in both physician groups.
Children who consulted for more than one condition or who saw multiple types of physicians were counted for each condition and physician-type visited.
Pilot testing was performed with 3 types of physicians including residents in internal medicine, practicing community clinicians, and faculty physician educators.
For 26 patients the questionnaire was filled in by the primary care physician and for 26 by the child psychiatrist (for 20 by both types of physicians).
