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Home Mental Health Care For Gunshot Victims
RWJF Health & Society Scholar Jooyoung Lee advocates home-based mental health care for gunshot victims to recover from the lingering effects of their injuries.
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Increasing Life Expectancy Could Undercut Social Security Viability
Americans’ life expectancy is increasing more quickly than official government forecasts, RWJF Health & Society Scholar Samir Soneji finds.
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Recruiting and Retaining Primary Care Physicians in Urban Underserved Communities
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Physicians cite different motivating factors as reasons why they choose–or do not choose–to work in medically underserved areas.
Professional Experiences of International Medical Graduates Practicing Primary Care in the United States
May 5, 2010 | Journal Article
A study to characterize the professional experience of international medical graduate physicians in the United States found that they experience workplace discrimination expect professional limitations experience challenges transitioning to U.S. culture and medical practice and bring unique skills to their work.
How Primary Care Providers Talk to Patients about Alcohol
September 1, 2006 | Journal Article
Although brief primary care alcohol counseling has been shown to benefit patients with alcohol misuse and providers generally believe that addressing alcohol misuse is an important clinical responsibility, rates of alcohol counseling are low. This q ...
Training Primary Care Clinicians in Maintenance Care for Moderated Alcohol Use
December 1, 2006 | Journal Article
Long-term maintenance care is needed to prevent recurrence of problematic alcohol use, yet primary care physicians receive little guidance about working with patients who have moderated or stopped their drinking. In the present pilot study, the auth ...
The Essential Role of Generalists in Health Care Systems
April 19, 2005 | Journal Article
This article discusses the essential role of primary care within the United States from a systems view. Three general functions of the primary care system are discussed including triage of undifferentiated symptoms, improving the efficiency and appr ...
Coordinating Care Across Diseases, Settings and Clinicians
April 19, 2005 | Journal Article
The complexity of the United States health care delivery system presents specific difficulties for the provision of coordinated care. In 2003, the RWJF Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars program began a review of the state of coordinated care and implications for the future of generalist research, education and practice.
Are Primary Care Physicians Ready to Practice in a Consumer-Driven Environment?
October 15, 2008 | Journal Article
This article assesses physicians' knowledge of consumer-directed health plans and ability to care for patients enrolled in such plans. Enrollment in consumer-directed health plans has grown rapidly in recent years but little is known about physician readiness to respond to a consumer-directed system.
Understanding Healing Relationships in Primary Care
July 1, 2008 | Journal Article
Clinicians often have an intuitive understanding of how their relationships with patients foster healing. The aim of this study was to create a model that identifies how these relationships are developed and maintained.
General Internists' Views on Pay-for-Performance and Public Reporting of Quality Scores
March 1, 2007 | Journal Article
A National Survey
Perspectives of Physicians and Nurse Practitioners on Primary Care Practice
May 16, 2013 | Journal Article
This study suggests that increasing the scope of nurse practitioners’ duties remains controversial.