Primary Health Care - Standards
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

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...

Assessment of neuropathic pain in primary care.

29 Sep 2009 Management of patients presenting with chronic pain is a common problem in primary care. Essentially, the classification of chronic pain falls into 3 broad categories: (1) pain owing to tissue disease or damage (nociceptive pain), (2) pain caused by ... Read more...

Cardiovascular disease risk management for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in primary health care settings: findings from the Kanyini Audit.

19 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To describe cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk management in Indigenous primary health care. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Review of 1165 randomly selected case records of Indigenous Australian adults, aged >/= 18 years, regularly ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Primary Health Care - Standards'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Associations between structural capabilities of primary care practices and performance on selected quality measures. 4 Oct 2009
• The cooperative medical extension program: translation of medical best practices to practicing primary care providers. 29 Sep 2009
• Assessment of neuropathic pain in primary care. 29 Sep 2009
• Cardiovascular disease risk management for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in primary health care settings: findings from the Kanyini Audit. 19 Sep 2009
• How do we support follow-up with the primary care provider after an emergency department visit for asthma? 19 Sep 2009
• The prevalence of weekly angina among patients with chronic stable angina in primary care practices: The Coronary Artery Disease in General Practice (CADENCE) Study. 12 Sep 2009
• PEDS and ASQ developmental screening tests may not identify the same children. 5 Sep 2009
• Diagnostic spirometry in primary care: Proposed standards for general practice compliant with American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society recommendations: a General Practice Airways Group (GPIAG)1 document, in association with the Association for Respiratory Technology & Physiology (ARTP)2 and Education for Health3 1 www.gpiag.org 2 www.artp.org 3 www.educationforhealth.org.uk. 30 Aug 2009
• [Sensitizing the public to the importance of primary care] 30 Aug 2009
• Improving poor women's access to maternity care: Findings from a primary care intervention in Burkina Faso. 30 Aug 2009
• Minor derm ailments: how good is the evidence for common treatments? 30 Aug 2009
• Primary care guidelines for the management of persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus: 2009 update by the HIV medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 30 Aug 2009
• Are we meeting the American Diabetes Association goals for HIV-infected patients with diabetes mellitus? 30 Aug 2009
• The GP Patient Survey for use in primary care in the National Health Service in the UK--development and psychometric characteristics. 20 Aug 2009
• The US health care system: Part 1: our current system. 16 Aug 2009
• Healing relationships and the existential philosophy of Martin Buber. 11 Aug 2009
• Long-term benefits of short-term quality improvement interventions for depressed youths in primary care. Aug 2009
• Internal medicine/primary care reminder: what are the standards of care for HIV-positive patients aged 50 years and older? 30 Jul 2009
• The medical home--improving quality of primary care for children. 30 Jul 2009
• Managing asthma in primary care: putting new guideline recommendations into context. 30 Jul 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