•Journal•ISSN: 2150-1319
Journal of Primary Care & Community Health
About: Journal of Primary Care & Community Health is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Health care & Community health. It has an ISSN identifier of 2150-1319. It is also open access. Over the lifetime, 904 publication(s) have been published receiving 5679 citation(s).
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TL;DR: Interventions designed to target reasons for no- show are needed to help reduce the no-show rate, improve access and decrease health disparities in underserved patient populations.
Abstract: Background: Missed primary care appointments lead to poor disease control and later presentation to care. No-show rates are higher in clinics caring for underserved populations and may contribute t...
157 citations
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TL;DR: Burnout is highly associated with adverse work conditions and a greater intention to leave the practice, but not with adverse patient outcomes, and care quality appears to be preserved at great personal cost to primary care physicians.
Abstract: Objective: To assess relationships between primary care work conditions, physician burnout, quality of care, and medical errors. Methods: Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of data from the MEMO (Minimizing Error, Maximizing Outcome) Study. Two surveys of 422 family physicians and general internists, administered 1 year apart, queried physician job satisfaction, stress and burnout, organizational culture, and intent to leave within 2 years. A chart audit of 1795 of their adult patients with diabetes and/or hypertension assessed care quality and medical errors. Key Results: Women physicians were almost twice as likely as men to report burnout (36% vs 19%, P < .001). Burned out clinicians reported less satisfaction (P < .001), more job stress (P < .001), more time pressure during visits (P < .01), more chaotic work conditions (P < .001), and less work control (P < .001). Their workplaces were less likely to emphasize work-life balance (P < .001) and they noted more intent to leave the practice (56% v...
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TL;DR: Assessment of collaborative care interventions for improving depression and quality of life in primary care patients with varying medical conditions found that intervention recipients achieved greater improvement than controls.
Abstract: Background: Depression concomitant with chronic medical conditions is common and burdensome in primary care. Objective: To assess the effectiveness of practice-based interventions for improving dep...
98 citations
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TL;DR: This study highlights complex perceptions patients have around how SES affects their health care and offers opportunities to reduce health care disparities through better understanding of their impact on the individual patient-provider relationship.
Abstract: Introduction: Clinician perceptions of patients with low socioeconomic status (SES) have been shown to affect clinical decision making and health care delivery in this group. However, it is unknown...
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TL;DR: A pharmacist-driven intervention focused on patient education and medication reconciliation after discharge improved medication use and reduced health care resource utilization in this pilot study.
Abstract: Purpose: Medication errors related to hospital discharge result in rehospitalization and emergency department (ED) visits, yet no systematic approach has been implemented nationally to decrease the...
77 citations