General Medicine

Can Your Patient Understand Your Instructions?

Approximately half of Americans have reading and computational skill deficiencies that could impede their participation and compliance in health care. This problem raises serious concerns about how well patients with low or marginal literacy are navigating the current health care system.

Are PCPs Near Extinction?

Vacancies are becoming harder to fill and keeping established providers from seeking alternatives is difficult. Selling primary care as a career choice is a tough challenge in light of the stresses and strains imposed on those who choose that path.

43% of malpractice cases stem from (non-ED) outpatient care.

CRICO Clinical Guidelines

In conjunction with clinical experts from Harvard-affiliated health care organizations, CRICO develops and maintains evidence-based decision support tools for physicians and nurses whose patient encounters align with high-severity malpractice risks. These guidelines, algorithms, and other tools are designed and periodically updated to help clinicians identify risk prone steps in specific diagnostic or treatment processes, and suggest protocols.

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PCP vs. Hospitalists The PSP paradigm is in flux

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PCP vs. Hospitalists

Eric Weil, MD, Massachusetts General Physicians Organization

March 1, 2009

Side-by-side, PCPs and hospitalists offer in-hospital care. Office-based physicians who do visit their inpatients work alongside peers who no longer make the daily trek to the wards. That highlights some tension in the PCP’s role and exposes the pressures of balancing economics, quality of care, and quality of life. It also speaks to physician identity.

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FAQs About Office Practice More medmal cases involve outpatients

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FAQs About Office Practice

May 4, 2011

Questions and answers about patient safety risks in ambulatory settings.
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Consultation Through the Eyes of an Internist Face-to-face consults are less common

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Consultation Through the Eyes of an Internist

Debbie LaValley, BSN, RN, CRICO

September 1, 2009

It is the perception of many subspecialists that the number of inpatient consultations has grown markedly along with the hospitalist program over the past five years. This perception may be due more to the young age and in experience of many of our hospitalists rather than a conscious concern about malpractice risk.
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General Medicine

Can Your Patient Understand Your Instructions?

Are PCPs Near Extinction?

CRICO Clinical Guidelines

Featured

PCP vs. Hospitalists

FAQs About Office Practice

Consultation Through the Eyes of an Internist