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Physician referral rates: style without much substance?P Franks
Primary Care Institute, Department of Family Medicine, University of Rochester, New York, USA
Med Care 38:836-46. 2000..The relationships between this physician behavior and costs and patient outcomes are unknown...
Why do physicians vary so widely in their referral rates?P Franks
Primary Care Institute, Department of Family Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
J Gen Intern Med 15:163-8. 2000..To determine which physician practice and psychological factors contribute to observed variation in primary care physicians' referral rates...- Skepticism toward medical care and health care utilizationK Fiscella
Primary Care Institute, Highland Hospital, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, NY, USA
Med Care 36:180-9. 1998..The impact of skepticism toward health care providers on health behavior and health care utilization was assessed using a cross-sectional analysis of data from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey (NMES)... - Do physicians who diagnose more mental health disorders generate lower health care costs?T L Campbell
Department of Family Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine, New York 14610, USA
J Fam Pract 49:305-10. 2000..Our goal was to examine the relationships between the proportion of mental health diagnoses by primary care physicians and both health care expenditures and the risk of avoidable hospitalizations... - Does skepticism towards medical care predict mortality?K Fiscella
Primary Care Institute, and Department of Family Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, NY, USA
Med Care 37:409-14. 1999..This study examines the impact of skepticism toward medical care on mortality using data from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey (NMES)... - Racial and ethnic disparities in perceptions of physician style and trustM P Doescher
Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, 98105 6099, USA
Arch Fam Med 9:1156-63. 2000..While pervasive racial and ethnic inequalities in access to care and health status have been documented, potential underlying causes, such as patients' perceptions of their physicians, have not been explored as thoroughly... - Is family care associated with reduced health care expenditures?M P Doescher
Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle 98105 6099, USA
J Fam Pract 48:608-14. 1999.... - Impact of patient socioeconomic status on physician profiles: a comparison of census-derived and individual measuresK Fiscella
Department of Family Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Family Medicine Center, New York 14620, USA
Med Care 39:8-14. 2001..The relative ease of using zip codes compared with geocoded addresses and loss of information associated with incomplete matching during geocoding suggest that zip code-derived SES may be preferable... - Telephone ownership and deaf people: implications for telephone surveysS Barnett
Primary Care Institute, Highland Hospital, Rochester, New York, USA
Am J Public Health 89:1754-6. 1999..This study was done to determine the prevalence of telephone ownership in different deaf populations and to explore its implications for telephone-based surveys... - The adequacy of Papanicolaou smears as performed by family physicians and obstetrician-gynecologistsK Fiscella
Primary Care Institute, Highland Hospital, and the Department of Family Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, NY, USA
J Fam Pract 48:294-8. 1999..Little is known about the quality of Papanicolaou (Pap) smears performed by family physicians and obstetrician-gynecologists... - Supplemental insurance and mortality in elderly Americans. Findings from a national cohortM P Doescher
Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA
Arch Fam Med 9:251-7. 2000..As the burden of out-of-pocket health care expenditures for Medicare beneficiaries has grown, the need to assess the relationship between uncovered costs and health outcomes has become more pressing... - Inequality in quality: addressing socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic disparities in health careK Fiscella
Family Medicine Center, 885 S Ave, Rochester, NY 14620, USA
JAMA 283:2579-84. 2000..jama. 2000;283:2579-2584.. - Improving physicians' HIV risk-assessment skills using announced and unannounced standardized patientsR M Epstein
Highland Primary Care Institute, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY 14620, USA
J Gen Intern Med 16:176-80. 2001..To evaluate feasibility and to validate a rating scale for two educational programs that use standardized patient-instructors (SPIs) in the office setting to improve physicians' HIV risk communication skills... - Effectiveness of telephone reminders in improving rate of appointments kept at an outpatient clinic: a randomized controlled trialM J Hashim
Department of Family Medicine, University of Rochester, NY, USA
J Am Board Fam Pract 14:193-6. 2001..Telephone reminders provide substantial net revenue, but the results may be population specific... - Deafness and mortality: analyses of linked data from the National Health Interview Survey and National Death IndexS Barnett
Department of Family Medicine, University of Rochester, NY, USA
Public Health Rep 114:330-6. 1999..To examine the association between age at onset of deafness and mortality... - Racial/ethnic inequities in continuity and site of care: location, location, locationM P Doescher
Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98105-6099, USA
Health Serv Res 36:78-89. 2001..Greater use of hospital clinics and community health centers by minorities also contributes to this discontinuity...