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2. Managed mental health care and professional compensation.
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Sederer, Lloyd I. and Sederer, L I
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MANAGED care programs ,MEDICAL care ,MEDICAL ethics ,COMPENSATION management ,HEALTH care networks ,MENTAL health services ,HEALTH policy ,PHYSICIAN-patient relations ,MATHEMATICAL models ,MEDICAL care cost control ,MOTIVATION (Psychology) ,PHYSICIANS ,PSYCHOLOGY of physicians ,PSYCHOLOGY ,WAGES ,STATISTICAL models ,ECONOMICS - Abstract
Managed care and organized systems of care are restructuring the delivery of care in the United States. As care is reorganized, physician practice styles, autonomy, and compensation are undergoing profound changes. To successfully integrate physicians into the new managed systems of care, their organizational relationship to and their compensation within these systems must be carefully considered. This paper first explores physician motivation as it is related to compensation. The paper then describes a variety of emerging organizational designs aimed at aligning the interests of physicians and hospitals. The author considers fully integrated, physician-hospital organizations with target income compensation arrangements to be most suitable to the collective success of professionals and organized systems of care. The paper concludes with a discussion of the many dilemmas and challenges posed by the intertwining of managed care, organized networks of care, and professional compensation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1994
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3. A literature review of the Dutch debate on the nurse practitioner role: efficiency vs. professional development.
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Maten-Speksnijder, A., Grypdonck, M., Pool, A., Meurs, P., and Staa, A.L.
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CINAHL database ,DEBATE ,HEALTH care reform ,INFORMATION storage & retrieval systems ,MEDICAL databases ,INTERPROFESSIONAL relations ,LABOR demand ,LABOR productivity ,LABOR supply ,MEDICAL care ,MEDICAL care costs ,MEDICAL personnel ,HEALTH policy ,MEDICAL practice ,MEDLINE ,NURSE practitioners ,NURSES ,NURSING specialties ,PERSONNEL management ,PHYSICIANS ,PROFESSIONAL employee training ,SYSTEMATIC reviews ,QUALITATIVE research ,DATA analysis software - Abstract
Aim To explore the debate on the development of the nurse practitioner profession in the Netherlands. Background In the Netherlands, the positives and negatives of nurse practitioners working in the medical domain have been debated since the role was introduced in 1997. The outcome of the debate is crucial for nurse practitioners' professional development and society's justification of their tasks. Method Review of 14 policy documents, 35 opinion papers from nurses, 363 opinion articles from physicians and 24 Dutch research papers concerning nurse practitioners from 1995 to 2012. Results Two discourses were revealed: one related to efficiency and one to the development of the profession. In both, the nurse practitioner role was presented as a solution for healthcare and workforce problems, while arguments differed. The efficiency discourse seemed most influential. Opinions of nurse practitioners were underrepresented; taking up new responsibilities was driven by the wish to improve patient care. While most physicians were willing to delegate tasks to nurse practitioners, they wished to retain final responsibility for medical care. Limitations All available publications were extensively studied, which could not include unpublished policy documents from the government or influential parties. This may have led to some selectivity. Conclusion The case of the Netherlands shows that nurses in developing their advanced role are facing barriers, similar to those in other countries. The dominance of efficiency arguments combined with protection of medical autonomy undermines the development towards nursing care that really benefits patients. Implications for nursing and health policy Nurse practitioners should strive to obtain positions in which they are allowed to make their own decisions and wise use of healthcare resources for the good of patients and society. Nurse practitioners should aim to become members of influential healthcare Boards in their countries, in which they can raise their voices and be involved in policy making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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4. Evidence-Based Practice.
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NAY, RHONDA and FETHERSTONHAUGH, DEIRDRE
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EVIDENCE-based medicine ,PATIENTS ,MEDICAL care ,HEALTH policy ,CARING ,RESEARCH ,PHYSICIANS ,CAREGIVERS ,HOSPITAL care - Abstract
Evidence-based practice (EBP) has been heralded as the most appropriate way of ensuring that patients receive the most effective care possible. It does, however, have several limitations. It is also not enough just to locate and evaluate the evidence without implementing it. This paper discusses EBP and its limitations and potential barriers; it also suggests strategies for changing current practices to more evidence-based ones according to an accurate understanding of the concept of EBP. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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5. Explanations in consultations: the combined effectiveness of doctors' and nurses' communication with patients.
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Collins, Sarah
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PATIENTS ,PHYSICIANS ,NURSES ,COMMUNICATION ,HEALTH policy ,MEDICAL care - Abstract
Multidisciplinary and interprofessional working is currently a priority in health care policy, in caring for patients and in health professional education. Realising multidisciplinary approaches presents challenges in the context of changes in doctors' and nurses' roles and the increased emphasis placed on communication with patients. In communication in consultations, explanations are employed in the service of numerous activities, including decision making, diagnosis and physical examination, but they have been little studied. This paper presents findings from a comparative study of doctors' and nurses' communication with patients in multidisciplinary health care, focusing on diabetes in primary care. Video- and audio-recorded consultations were subjected to conversation analysis. Output from discussion groups with patient representatives and health professionals underwent qualitative analysis. Distinctive features of explanations in nurses' and doctors' consultations with patients were identified. These can be understood by reference to patterns of communication. Nurses' communication was mediated by patients' contributions; doctors' communication gave an overarching direction to the consultation as a whole. While nurses' explanations began from the viewpoint of a patient's responsibility and behaviour, doctors' explanations began from the viewpoint of biomedical intervention. Their consultations lent different opportunities for patients' involvement. Nurses' and doctors' communications each exhibit their own distinct features. Specification of these features, when considered in the context of a particular consultation activity such as explanations, allows both recognition of the distinct contributions each profession can offer and identification of ways of combining these to maximum effect. This has implications for policy, for practice and for interprofessional education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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6. A system dynamics model of infection risk, expectations, and perceptions on antibiotic prescribing in the United States.
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Kianmehr, Hamed, Sabounchi, Nasim S., Sabounchi, Shabnam Seyedzadeh, and Cosler, Leon E.
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ANTIBIOTICS ,AGE distribution ,OUTPATIENT medical care ,ATTITUDE (Psychology) ,CONCEPTUAL structures ,DRUG prescribing ,OUTPATIENT services in hospitals ,MEDICAL appointments ,MEDICAL care ,MEDICAL personnel ,PATIENT-professional relations ,HEALTH policy ,MEDICAL prescriptions ,PHYSICIANS ,POPULATION geography ,RESPIRATORY infections ,SURVEYS ,DECISION making in clinical medicine ,PHYSICIAN practice patterns ,PATIENTS' attitudes ,STATISTICAL models ,DISEASE risk factors - Abstract
Rationale, aims, and objectives: Inappropriate antibiotic prescribing is still a major concern that can lead to devastating outcomes including antibiotic resistance. This study aimed to simulate the antibiotic prescribing behaviour by providers for acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) and to evaluate the impact of patient expectation, provider's perception of patient's expectation to receive a prescription, and patient's risk for bacterial infection, on the decision to prescribe. Methods: We developed a unique system dynamics (SD) simulation model based on the significant factors that impact the interaction between provider and patient during visits for ARTIs and the decision to prescribe antibiotics. In order to validate the model for different age groups and regions in the United States, we used the sample of 53 000 ARTI patient visits made at outpatient settings between 1993 and 2015, based on the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS). Results: Simulation results reveal that physician diagnosis for prescribing antibiotics is based on physician's experience from their prior prescribing behaviour, their perception of patient's infection risk, and patient's expectation to receive antibiotics. Also, there are some variations depending on patient's age and residential region. The simulation analysis also depicts the decreasing trend in patient's expectation over the past two decades for most age groups and regions. Conclusions: Given the high number of unnecessary prescriptions for ARTI, we found that policies are needed to influence provider's prescribing behaviour through patient's expectation and provider's perception regarding those expectations. Our simulation framework can further be used by policymakers to design and evaluate interventions that may modify the interaction between health providers and patients to optimize antibiotic prescriptions among ARTI patients for different regions and age groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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7. Financial Viability of Emergency Department Observation Unit Billing Models.
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Baugh, Christopher W., Suri, Pawan, Caspers, Christopher G., Granovsky, Michael A., Neal, Keith, Ross, Michael A., and Hauswald, Mark
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HOSPITAL emergency services ,MEDICAL practice ,COMPUTER simulation ,EXECUTIVES ,HEALTH planning ,HELP-seeking behavior ,HOSPITAL medical staff ,MEDICAL care ,HEALTH policy ,PROFESSIONAL peer review ,PHYSICIAN-patient relations ,PHYSICIANS ,PROFIT ,SURVEYS ,HOSPITAL observation units ,HEALTH insurance reimbursement ,FINANCIAL management ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,ECONOMICS - Abstract
Background: Outpatients receive observation services to determine the need for inpatient admission. These services are usually provided without the use of condition‐specific protocols and in an unstructured manner, scattered throughout a hospital in areas typically designated for inpatient care. Emergency department observation units (EDOUs) use protocolized care to offer an efficient alternative with shorter lengths of stay, lower costs, and higher patient satisfaction. EDOU growth is limited by existing policy barriers that prevent a "two‐service" model of separate professional billing for both emergency and observation services. The majority of EDOUs use the "one‐service" model, where a single composite professional fee is billed for both emergency and observation services. The financial implications of these models are not well understood. Methods: We created a Monte Carlo simulation by building a model that reflects current clinical practice in the United States and uses inputs gathered from the most recently available peer‐reviewed literature, national survey, and payer data. Using this simulation, we modeled annual staffing costs and payments for professional services under two common models of care in an EDOU. We also modeled cash flows over a continuous range of daily EDOU patient encounters to illustrate the dynamic relationship between costs and revenue over various staffing levels. Results: We estimate the mean (±SD) annual net cash flow to be a net loss of $315,382 (±$89,635) in the one‐service model and a net profit of $37,569 (±$359,583) in the two‐service model. The two‐service model is financially sustainable at daily billable encounters above 20, while in the one‐service model, costs exceed revenue regardless of encounter count. Physician cost per hour and daily patient encounters had the most significant impact on model estimates. Conclusions: In the one‐service model, EDOU staffing costs exceed payments at all levels of patient encounters, making a hospital subsidy necessary to create a financially sustainable practice. Professional groups seeking to staff and bill for both emergency and observation services are seldom able to do so due to EDOU size limitations and the regulatory hurdles that require setting up a separate professional group for each service. Policymakers and health care leaders should encourage universal adoption of EDOUs by removing restrictions and allowing the two‐service model to be the standard billing option. These findings may inform planning and policy regarding observation services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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8. Defining 'medical necessity' in an age of personalised medicine: A view from Canada.
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Caulfield, Timothy and Zarzeczny, Amy
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MEDICAL necessity (Law) ,MEDICAL care ,HEALTH policy ,MEDICAL care costs ,PHYSICIANS - Abstract
The concept of medical necessity plays a central role in many healthcare systems, including Canada's, by helping determine which healthcare services will receive funding. Despite its significance in health policy frameworks, medical necessity has proven to be notoriously difficult to define and operationalise. A shift toward a more personalised and genetically-informed approach to the provision of healthcare seems likely to heighten associated policy challenges. One of the stated goals of personalised medicine is to save healthcare systems money by facilitating the use of less and more effective treatments. However, any cost saving potential may ultimately be thwarted by physicians' legal and ethical obligations, given that physicians will inevitably be required to implement and define the bounds of genetically-informed medical necessity for their patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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9. Primary Health Care in Canada: Systems in Motion.
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HUTCHISON, BRIAN, LEVESQUE, JEAN‐FREDERIC, STRUMPF, ERIN, and COYLE, NATALIE
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HEALTH care reform ,PRIMARY health care ,MEDICAL care ,HEALTH policy ,ANALYSIS of variance ,GOAL (Psychology) ,HEALTH insurance ,INTERVIEWING ,RESEARCH methodology ,MEDICAL care cost control ,NATIONAL health services ,GENERAL practitioners ,DISEASE management ,ECONOMICS - Abstract
During the 1980s and 1990s, innovations in the organization, funding, and delivery of primary health care in Canada were at the periphery of the system rather than at its core. In the early 2000s, a new policy environment emerged. This policy analysis examines primary health care reform efforts in Canada during the last decade, drawing on descriptive information from published and gray literature and from a series of semistructured interviews with informed observers of primary health care in Canada. Primary health care in Canada has entered a period of potentially transformative change. Key initiatives include support for interprofessional primary health care teams, group practices and networks, patient enrollment with a primary care provider, financial incentives and blended-payment schemes, development of primary health care governance mechanisms, expansion of the primary health care provider pool, implementation of electronic medical records, and quality improvement training and support. Canada's experience suggests that primary health care transformation can be achieved voluntarily in a pluralistic system of private health care delivery, given strong government and professional leadership working in concert. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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10. The Relationship between Health Plan Performance Measures and Physician Network Overlap: Implications for Measuring Plan Quality.
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Maeng, Daniel D., Scanlon, Dennis P., Chernew, Michael E., Gronniger, Tim, Wodchis, Walter P., and McLaughlin, Catherine G.
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HEALTH planning ,PUBLIC health ,MEDICAL care ,PHYSICIANS ,PHYSICIAN practice patterns ,HEALTH policy - Abstract
Objective. To examine the extent to which health plan quality measures capture physician practice patterns rather than plan characteristics. Data Source. We gathered and merged secondary data from the following four sources: a private firm that collected information on individual physicians and their health plan affiliations, The National Committee for Quality Assurance, InterStudy, and the Dartmouth Atlas. Study Design. We constructed two measures of physician network overlap for all health plans in our sample and linked them to selected measures of plan performance. Two linear regression models were estimated to assess the relationship between the measures of physician network overlap and the plan performance measures. Principal Findings. The results indicate that in the presence of a higher degree of provider network overlap, plan performance measures tend to converge to a lower level of quality. Conclusions. Standard health plan performance measures reflect physician practice patterns rather than plans' effort to improve quality. This implies that more provider-oriented measurement, such as would be possible with accountable care organizations or medical homes, may facilitate patient decision making and provide further incentives to improve performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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11. Racial and Ethnic Disparities and Perceptions of Health Care: Does Health Plan Type Matter?
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Hunt, Kelly A., Gaba, Ayorkor, and Lavizzo‐Mourey, Risa
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MEDICAL care ,RACIAL differences ,HEALTH policy ,PUBLIC health ,PHYSICIANS ,TELEPHONE surveys - Abstract
To examine whether racial and ethnic differences in the distribution of individuals across types of health plans explain differences in satisfaction and trust with their physicians.Data were derived from the 1998–1999 Community Tracking Household and Followback Studies and consisted of a nationwide sample of adults (18 years and older).The data were collected by telephone survey. Surveys were administered in English and Spanish. The response rate for the Household Survey was 63 percent, and the match rate for the Followback Survey was 59 percent.Multivariate analyses used regression methods to detect independent effects of respondent race and ethnicity on satisfaction and trust with physician, while controlling for enrollment in different types of health plans.Racial and ethnic minorities are more likely than whites to have lower levels of trust and satisfaction with their physician. The most prominent differences occurred within the Latino and Native American/Asian American/Pacific Islander/Other (“Other”) populations. Plan type does not mitigate the relationship between race/ethnicity and trust and satisfaction for the overall adult population.Disparate levels of trust and satisfaction exist within ethnic and minority populations, even when controlling for the distribution of individuals across types of health plans. The results demonstrate a need to better understand the health care-related factors that drive disparate trust and satisfaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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