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Primary Care: Concept, Evaluation, And Policy
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The role of patient care teams in chronic disease management
TL;DR: A Medline search for randomised controlled trials of team care using the MeSH heading “patient care team” considered the implications of these observations for the structure and functioning of patient care teams in primary care.
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Is primary care essential
TL;DR: This paper addresses questions about when primary care physicians act as "gatekeepers" to specialist services, what is the effect on outcomes, and how many general practitioners are needed in a primary-care-oriented system.
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A Multifaceted Intervention to Improve Treatment of Depression in Primary Care
Wayne Katon,Patricia Robinson,Michael Von Korff,Elizabeth H. B. Lin,Terry Bush,Evette J. Ludman,Gregory E. Simon,Edward A. Walker +7 more
TL;DR: A multifaceted primary care intervention improved adherence to antidepressant regimens and satisfaction with care in patients with major and minor depression.
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Does Increased Access to Primary Care Reduce Hospital Readmissions
TL;DR: For veterans discharged from Veterans Affairs hospitals, the primary care intervention studied increased rather than decreased the rate of rehospitalization, although patients in the intervention group were more satisfied with their care.
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The Future of Family Medicine: a collaborative project of the family medicine community.
James C. Martin,Robert F. Avant,John R. Bucholtz,John C. Dick,Kenneth L. Evans,Douglas E. Henley,Warren A. Jones,Warren A. Jones,Janice E. Nevin,Sandra L. Panther,James C. Puffer,Richard G. Roberts,Denise V. Rodgers,Cynthia W. Weber,Thomas M. Gorey,Norman B. Kahn,Sarah Thomas,Marilyn A. McMillen +17 more
TL;DR: The study concluded that the discipline needs to oversee the training of family physicians who are committed to excellence, steeped in the core values of the discipline, competent to provide family medicine’s basket of services within the New Model, and capable of adapting to varying patient needs and changing care technologies.