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December 1, 2010 | Journal Article
An exploration of physician organizations' administrative changes and changes in health promotion practices found that physician organizations employ no standard set of health promotion practices, and that health promotion practices and organizational structure evolve over time.
August 1, 2009 | Journal Article
The authors found a significant, though not necessarily causal, relationship between physician ownership of ambulatory treatment centers for urinary stones, and utilization of such centers by the urologists who own them.
December 1, 2010 | Survey/Poll
The National Survey of Small and Medium-Sized Physician Practices (NSSMPP) provides information about physician practices in the Albuquerque region.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Most larger U.S. medical practice groups have some strategy in place to treat patients' tobacco dependence. But few have instituted a broad, multistrategy effort as recommended by Public Health Service guidelines, according to this survey-based study.
August 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article examines the relationship between health plan performance and physician network overlap.
December 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This study reports the process and outcomes of local Institutional Review Board review for two large, federally-funded studies conducted by Pediatric Research in Office Settings (PROS), the PBRN of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
October 1, 2009 | Survey/Poll
As part of the Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) evaluation efforts, evaluators conducted the National Survey of Small and Medium-Sized Physician Practices (NSSMPP) in AF4Q sites between March 2010 and August 2010. The NSSMPP, funded by the Robert ...
September 1, 2009 | Journal Article
The use of organized chronic illness care management processes (CMPs) is discussed in this article.
March 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
Puget Sound Health Alliance (the Alliance) released the Community Checkup, its first public report containing quality measures for physician clinics in the area. This issue brief describes the key features of that process, including preparing the report, content, format, dissemination and key lessons learned by the Puget Sound Health Alliance.
June 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article examines the use of evidence-based care management processes by large physician organizations. Care management processes are designed to improve care for people with chronic illness. Over 90 million Americans have a chronic illness and chronic illness is responsible for more than three-quarters of national health care costs.