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Journal Article

Bridging the Gap Between Basic Science and Clinical Practice: A Role for Community Clinicians — Apr 6, 2011

A paradigm shift involving acknowledgement of the value of clinicians in the context of community research, establishment of a stable infrastructure to support a cohort of clinicians across time and research studies, and realignment of incentives to encourage participation in clinical research is required.

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Bridging the Gap Between Basic Science and Clinical Practice: The Role of Organizations in Addressing Clinician Barriers — Apr 4, 2011

This paper identifies several approaches that healthcare organizations can use to overcome barriers to clinician participation in research studies.

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Reengineering the Clinical Research Enterprise to Involve More Community Clinicians — Apr 4, 2011

This paper presents a model for the reorganization of clinical research to foster long-term participation by community clinicians.

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More Than Four in Five Office-Based Physicians Could Qualify for Federal Electronic Health Record Incentives — Mar 1, 2011

Although most physicians qualify for federal incentives to promote adoption of electronic health records, eligibility varies substantially by specialty and practice size.

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Clinicians' Views on the Feasibility of Surgical Randomized Trials in Urogynecology: Results of a Questionnaire Survey — Jan 1, 2011

This study highlights the difference between collective and individual equipoise and their impact upon surgical trials.

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Facts, Facts, Facts: What Is a Physician to Do — Jan 1, 2011

This commentary argues that it is timely to reengage physicians in the discussion of international comparative data about health care and to ask why the United States is so provincial in designing the systems by which care is delivered.

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Most MA Physician Groups Engaged in Improving Patient Experience, but Focus Is Not on Physician Role — Dec 20, 2010

Most Massachusetts physician groups are using results from a statewide patient survey to help improve patient experiences, but a significant number are not making use of the information or are making relatively limited efforts.

News Release

Most Massachusetts Physician Groups Engaged in Improving Patient Experience, but Focus is Not on Physician Role — Dec 20, 2010

Most Massachusetts physician groups are using results from a statewide patient survey to help improve patient experiences, but a significant number are not making use of the information or are making relatively limited efforts.

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Association Between Physician Specialty and Uptake of New Medical Technologies: HPV Tests in Florida Medicaid — Nov 1, 2010

Uptake of new cervical cancer screening protocols can occur quickly among traditionally underserved groups and may be aided by early adoption by specialists.

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Information Patients Use to Choose Physicians Not Always Good Predictors of Quality — Sep 13, 2010

When looking for a new physician, patients are often encouraged to select those who are board certified or who have not made payments on malpractice claims—characteristics that are not always a good predictor of which physicians will provide the highest quality medical care.

Research Brief

Where Do Americans Get Acute Care? Not at Their Doctor's Office — Sep 2, 2010

Less than half of acute care visits in the United States involve a patient's personal physician. Emergency physicians, who comprise only 4 percent of doctors, handle 28 percent of all acute care encounters and nearly all after-hours and weekend care.

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Where Americans Get Acute Care: Increasingly, It's Not at Their Doctor's Office — Sep 1, 2010

Only 42 percent of the 354 million annual visits in the U.S. for acute care—treatment for newly arising health problems—are made to patients' personal physicians. The rest are made to emergency departments (28 percent), specialists (20 percent), or outpatient departments (7 percent).

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Cost Profiles: Should the Focus Be on Individual Physicians or Physician Groups? — Aug 1, 2010

Cost profiles of physician groups are statistically more reliable than profiles of individual physicians but they don't predict individual physician performance within the group.

News Release

Results of Physician Cost Profiling Can Vary Widely — May 18, 2010

Profiles created for physicians based on the cost of the care they provide can vary widely depending upon the methods used by insurance companies to create the profiles.

Journal Article

The Effect of Different Attribution Rules on Individual Physician Cost Profiles — May 18, 2010

The choice of attribution rule affects how costs are assigned to a physician and can substantially affect the cost category to which a physician is assigned.

News Release

Performance-Based Payments for Primary Care Providers May Worsen Disparities in Medical Care — May 4, 2010

Rewarding primary care physicians for providing better care to patients could end up widening medical disparities experienced by poorer people and by minorities. Increasing the number of primary care physicians is also not enough to boost U.S. health care quality and lower costs.

News Release

Efforts to Promote Use of Lower-Cost Physicians May Be Based on Misleading Profiles — Mar 17, 2010

Increasingly common insurance plans that encourage patients to receive care from physicians who keep medical costs lower are based on unreliable estimates of doctor performance and may not achieve the intended savings.

Journal Article

Pay for Performance Through the Lens of Medical Professionalism — Mar 16, 2010

The authors examine the potential conflicts between pay for performance and medical professionalism and conclude that properly designed pay-for-performance models can support professional objectives.

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Adoption and Use of Stand-Alone Electronic Prescribing in a Health Plan-Sponsored Initiative — Mar 1, 2010

Certain categories of physicians may need more tailored incentives to adopt SEP.

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Meta-analysis: Effect of Interactive Communication Between Collaborating Primary Care Physicians and Specialists — Feb 16, 2010

Assesses the effects of interactive communication between collaborating primary care physicians and key specialists on outcomes for patients receiving ambulatory care.

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