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W R Gillanders

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Health and poverty among elderly persons: a community-oriented primary care survey.

Providing health care for independent-living elderly persons is important, yet family physicians often lack accurate information about needs and access to care. The Community-Oriented Primary Care (COPC) approach and health status models from health services research provide a framework for assessing need and access to care. Personal interviews were conducted with 990 noninstitutionalized elderly persons in Youngstown, Ohio. Results showed that poverty, gender, and race were not strongly related to health status as measured by numbers of symptoms, functional status, or subjective health status. In addition, elderly persons had fewer health care needs and greater access to care than expected. Simple models of health status, need, and access do not seem to apply. The study shows the usefulness of COPC in planning health services; however, more effort is needed to refine measures of health status, need, and access.

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Economic analysis of family practice residency programs: a report from the Northeastern Ohio Network.

BACKGROUND: The financial impact of a family practice residency program on a sponsoring institution is poorly understood. This study intended to describe as fully as possible all the expenses and revenues from five community-based family practice residency programs in northeastern Ohio. METHODS: Direct and indirect expenses, revenues, and demographics were evaluated for 1992. Similarities and differences among the participating programs were examined. RESULTS: Overall expenses per resident were similar in all five programs, with a range from $162,000 to $203,000. Revenues reflected the number of residents in the program, although collection ratios varied. Inpatient collections ranged from 53%-76% and outpatient collections ranged from 60%-76%. An average of 30% of graduates from the past 10 years were on the active medical staff of their sponsoring institution, with a range of 21%-36%. CONCLUSION: Based on the expenses, revenues collected, and reasonable assumptions made about cost of care in the hospital setting, the family practice residencies are probably a break-even operation, excluding the benefit of providing primary care physicians to the community.

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