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R C Mendenhall

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PubMed1979

A national study of internal medicine and its specialties: I. An overview of the practice of internal medicine.

A nationwide study of 24 medical and surgical specialties has been conducted by the University of Southern California School of Medicine, Division of Research in Medical Education. This article is the first in a series reporting findings for general internal medicine and 10 subspecialties of internal medicine. Populations for these 11 specialties are defined and enumerated, and the specialties are compared in terms of demographic and geographic distribution. Practice comparisons are presented based on characteristics such as workload, allocation of professional time, location of encounters with patients, distribution of primary problem diagnoses, and projections of annual patient encounters. Forthcoming specialty-specific articles will present highly detailed information for general internal medicine and for the subspecialties of cardiology, gastroenterology, pulmonary disease, allergy, hematology, endocrinology, nephrology, medical oncology, rheumatology, and infectious diseases.

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PubMed1979

A national study of internal medicine and its specialties: II. Primary care in internal medicine.

A nationwide study of practitioners in 24 medical and surgical specialties was conducted by the University of Southern California School of Medicine, Division of Research in Medical Education. In this second report of a series presenting findings for internal medicine, general internal medicine and 10 subspecialties of internal medicine are compared using a care classification scheme designed for the study. On the basis of characteristics of the individual patient encounter, this care classification scheme distinguishes several dimensions associated with the concept of primary care. Five empirically derived types of care rather than a simple "primary" or "non-primary" dichotomy are described, and the distributions of each type for the 11 subspecialties examined are noted. Types of care (according to the care classification) are examined by the time per patient, the complexity of physician services, the severity and chronicity of problems, and the degree of specialization associated with providing different types of care. Estimates of the number of annual encounters, and the number of annual encounters for three of the five types of care, with the proportion of each accounted for by each subspecialty, are given.

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PubMed1978

A national study of medical and surgical specialties. II. Description of the survey instrument.

The survey instrument used in the national study of physician activities conducted by the University of Southern California, Division of Research in Medical Education, is a log-diary in which physicians kept a record of their actual professional activities. The log-diary focused on use of physician time and patient encounters and employed numerical coding of activities and patient encounters in a highly structured format. Compared with instruments used in similar studies, this log-diary appears to gather a greater breadth and depth of information about physician practice patterns.

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PubMed1978

A national study of medical and surgical specialties. I. Background purpose, and methodology.

The University of Southern California is conducting a national survey of physicians involving the collection and analysis of detailed data on the activities and practice characteristics of generalists, medical specialists, and surgical specialists of different types. This is the first of a series of reports on the survey and provides an overview of the survey's background, purposes, and general research methods. Basic features of the research methods include the development of a survey instrument capable of obtaining different types of practice data from physicians in most specialties and practice arrangements, the sampling of physician population to ensure that sufficient data are obtained from physicians in most specialties and practice arrangements, and the creation and application of a scheme for classifying patient-care services provided by physicians along dimensions related to primary care.

Family Practice↗
PubMed1978

Manpower for obstetrics-gynecology. I. Demographic considerations and practice work load.

A cooperative study between the University of Southern California Division of Research in Medical Education and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists represents one subset of a large-scale study of manpower supply in obstetrics-gynecology. A stratified random sample of all obstetrician-gynecologists was obtained from the AMerican Medical Association's "Master File of Physicians." A total of 879 respondents (56 per cent of the sample) completed a detailed, one-week log of practice activities and self-descriptive questionnaire. This initial report describes these physicians by practice arrangement as related to age and geography. Practice work load is identified by encounter time per patient, work hours per day and week, and variations related to geographic location and population served. The descriptive findings may have important implications for manpower planning.

Adult↗
PubMed1978

A study of the practice of dermatology in the United States. Initial findings.

A nationwide study of the practice activities of dermatologists reports that dermatology is a predominantly outpatient specialty, with 97% of patient encounter occurring outside of the hospital. The average dermatologist cares for approximately 7,000 patients a year and functions almost exclusively as a specialist, with only 2.2% of his cases related to nondermatologic problems. The dermatologist performs a type of primary care, however, with seven out of ten patients being self-referred. Eighty-seven percent of dermatologic encounters can be categorized into 25 disease conditions. This study serves to increase the understanding of how the dermatologist cares for his patients.

Adolescent↗