Nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) now outnumber family practice doctors in the United States and are the principal providers of primary care to many communities. Recent growth of these professions has occurred amidst considerable cross-state variation in their regulation,...

We propose and empirically implement a test for the presence of racial prejudice among emergency department (ED) physicians based on the bounceback rates of the patients who were discharged after receiving diagnostic tests during their initial ED visits. A bounceback is defined as a return to...

In this paper, we explore the effects of primary care physician (PCP) practice competition on five distinct quality metrics directly tied to screening, follow-up care, and prescribing behavior under Medicare Part B. Controlling for physician, practice, and area characteristics as well as zip...

To date, healthcare funding models have been limited to insurance, savings programs,and unreimbursed care, with insurance being the dominant model. However, many moderninsurance panels include deductibles which are fundamentally incompatible with the reality thatmany Americans live...

This study assesses the causal effects of primary care utilization on subjective health status in Turkey using individual-level data from the 2012 Health Research Survey. Employing recursive bivariate ordered models that take into account the possibility that selection into healthcare might be...

Relational continuity (RC) refers to an ongoing relationship between a patient and a clinician or clinical team beyond a specific service encounter or disease episode. As a defining characteristic of good medical practice, RC has been shown to confer many clinical and operational advantages and...

This paper analyzes the importance of strengthening the relationship of accountability between health service providers and citizens for improving access to and quality of health care. How this is to be achieved, and whether it works, however, remain open questions. The paper presents a...

Applying the new health reform gives an unprecedented interpretation to most of the definitions known under a certain form in the socio-economic, general and managerial relationships in particular. In this context, most specialists support the definition of quality of care by optimal patient...

In 2002, New Zealand's government-funded primary health care payments were changed from a fee-for-service basis to a capitation basis as part of a change towards a population-based, managed care style of primary health care provision. However, some specific differences characterise the New...

Objectives: To describe how physicians were engaged in primary healthcare system change in a remote and rural Canadian health authority.Design: A qualitative interpretive study based on a hermeneutic approach.Methods: 34 transcribed in-depth interviews with physicians and administrators relevant...