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April 1, 2013 | Issue Brief
As many as 85 percent of primary care physicians (PCPs) feel that to achieve good health outcomes, it is as important to address patients’ resource and social constraints as it is to treat their medical conditions.
August 1, 2012 | Journal Article
If doctors are rewarded for cost savings, does quality suffer as a result? This study shows the two are not mutually exclusive. Findings suggest that improving the quality of care for patients with diabetes saves money.
April 11, 2011 | Journal Article
This study examined the role of bias in treatment decisions close to 1,000 physicians chose hypothetical treatments for colon cancer and avian flu the physicians either chose a treatment they would want for themselves or made a recommendation for a patient.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article, from a supplement to the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, assesses the state of the medical profession. The authors emphasize the tension between a physician's self-interest and care of the patient in an increasingly commercialized health system.
November 1, 2007 | Story
Race and ethnicity affects how patients and their physicians interact and can impact health outcomes.
May 1, 2007 | Journal Article
How can physicians empathize when feeling negatively toward their patients?
January 1, 2006 | Report
As a result of rapidly rising medical malpractice insurance premiums, reduced availability of coverage, and financially distressed liability insurers, many states have passed tort reforms. This synthesis examines the medical malpractice "crisis" and the effect of state tort reforms.
December 1, 2005 | Program Result
Randall Baldwin Clark at the University of Virginia Law School Foundation, Charlottesville, Va., finished and disseminated his book, The Law Most Beautiful and Best: Medical Argument and Magical Rhetoric in Plato's Laws.
March 1, 2005 | Journal Article
Physicians can be more confident in their approach to ethical challenges in patient care if they adopt a systematic approach to address the issues. The authors recognize that a problem which initially appears to be ethical in nature may be more rela ...
March 1, 2003 | Program Result
The Association of American Medical Colleges published a 250-page anthology, Ten Years of Medicine and Arts, as part of the organization's 125-year anniversary celebration in 2001.