Primary Health Care - Organization & administration
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

The potency of team-based care interventions for hypertension: a meta-analysis.

24 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Team-based care is the strategy that has had the greatest effect on improving blood pressure (BP). The purpose of this systematic review was to determine the potency of interventions for BP involving nurses or pharmacists. METHODS: A ... Read more...

Associations between structural capabilities of primary care practices and performance on selected quality measures.

4 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Recent proposals to reform primary care have encouraged physician practices to adopt such structural capabilities as performance feedback and electronic health records. Whether practices with these capabilities have higher performance on ... Read more...

Health reform in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Oct 2009 In the two decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, former communist countries in Europe have pursued wide-ranging changes to their health systems. We describe three key aspects of these changes-an almost universal switch to health insurance ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Primary Health Care - Organization & administration'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• You get what you pay for. 30 Oct 2009
• The potency of team-based care interventions for hypertension: a meta-analysis. 24 Oct 2009
• Innovation networks: a strategy to transform primary health care. 5 Oct 2009
• Associations between structural capabilities of primary care practices and performance on selected quality measures. 4 Oct 2009
• Health reform in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Oct 2009
• Innovating innovation, my infundibular. 29 Sep 2009
• Public health and health services development in postconflict communities: a case study of a safe motherhood project in East Timor. 29 Sep 2009
• The cooperative medical extension program: translation of medical best practices to practicing primary care providers. 29 Sep 2009
• Getting past denial--the high cost of health care in the United States. 7 Sep 2009
• British lessons on health care reform. 7 Sep 2009
• HIV prevention and primary care for transgender women in a community-based clinic. 30 Aug 2009
• Building the medical home. 30 Aug 2009
• Development of an instrument to document the 5A's for smoking cessation. 30 Aug 2009
• 'A potential fifth column': conflicts and struggles for control in the context of local NHS privatization. 30 Aug 2009
• Misfortunes never come singly. 30 Aug 2009
• Medical home 2009: what it is, where we were, and where we are today. 30 Aug 2009
• This issue: the family-centered medical home in pediatrics. 30 Aug 2009
• Models for integrating rehabilitation and primary care: a scoping study. 30 Aug 2009
• Dr. Starfield brings it home. 30 Aug 2009
• Dr. Starfield brings it home. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Primary Health Care'

Definition: Care which provides integrated, accessible health care services by clinicians who are accountable for addressing a large majority of personal health care needs, developing a sustained partnership with patients, and practicing in the context of family and community. (JAMA 1995;273(3):192)

Descriptor UI: D011320

Alternative terms: Primary Health Care; Care, Primary Health; Health Care, Primary; Primary Care; Care, Primary; Primary Healthcare; Healthcare, Primary;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; manpower; methods;

Tree Number: N04.590.233.727;

History Note: 74(72)

Technical Notes: IM