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Category: Quality
Health Benefits of Primary Care
A study from 2007 quantifies the health benefits that primary care provides. For every extra primary care physician added over 4 lives can be saved. In the 1940s and 1950s more than 50 percent of all physicians in the United Continue Reading …
21st Century Medical Education
Medical education is at a crossroads. While the health care workforce requires rapid expansion to accommodate the aging Baby Boomers, medical schools are tasked with inculcating ever-expanding scientific knowledge in the same limited four-year timeframe allotted to physicians of generations Continue Reading …
Warranties in health care
Many products come with warranties from cars to cell phones to refrigerators. Except for the global surgical period health care offers no such guarantees. Warranties are a common feature of many goods and services purchased in the American economy. There Continue Reading …
Redesigning Provider Payment
A recent Health Affairs article explored several options and considerations for converting the current system of provider payments into one where all payments are bundled together for a patient’s entire episode of care. Health care providers are compensated by several Continue Reading …
Medical Malpractice
A comprehensive review from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundations Synthesis Project reports on the effectiveness of various malpractice reforms. Many physician and malpractice insurers claim that malpractice crises, both past and present, have caused physicians to retire early, restrict the Continue Reading …