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G G Reader

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PubMed1979

Physician awareness of economic factors in clinical decision-making.

Physicians' awareness of economic factors in clinical decision-making at one large urban university medical center was studied by a 50-item questionnaire. Their dollar estimates were considered correct if within +/- 20 per cent of the true October 1976 figure. Eighty-one per cent of the house staff and all of the attendings correctly estimated the daily semi-private room rate, but only 15 per cent of each group correctly estimated the charge for a serum potassium. Roughly half of the questions concerning various third-party benefit plans were answered correctly. These results are consistent with those of the few previous studies. If the findings are generally applicable, they may suggest that a directed teaching program in simple economic facts and principles may be useful at all levels of physician training.

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PubMed1976

Comprehensive care revisited.

Although the term comprehensive care has gone out of fashion in medical education, the concept has had a resurgence in attempts to teach primary care and family practice. Review of the early experiments in the teaching of comprehensive care in the 1950s reveals that much that was learned then is not being applied today. Surveys of medical school teaching and graduate training in primary care make it seem likely that there will be insufficient practitioners in the foreseeable future to meet the public need for personal physicians. Restructuring of both medical curricula and the delivery systems for personal health services may be necessary to apply effectively what has long been known about the teaching and practice of comprehensive primary care.

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