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I’d like to weigh in from a different perspective – that of a professor of industrial and systems engineering (specialty in human factors engineering) who studies health care quality and safety. I’d first like to disclose that Beasley and I are research collaborators, though I had no part in this particular study. Also, though I study health care, I have no medical training, so my comments come from my observations and e...
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The treatment of "the PATIENT with multiple problems" rather than just "multiple problems" is what we do... Thus accounting for under-reporting of diagnoses, and consequently being 'underpaid' for the amount of time spent. Thanks for this study. I hope it is seen and considered by those responsible for 'medicare guidelines'!
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This was an excellent study in demonstrating how complex the routine practice of family medicine can be. Rarely do patients present to their FP with just one problem to be "fixed". The problems that are presented are often intermingled and the treatment of one problem can effect the status of another or the medications used to treat another. As noted, the billing often doesn't reflect the thought and analysis put i...
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To the Editor,
The findings by Beasley, et al (1), that Family Doctors log an impressive average of 3.2 problems (including problems of others in the family) when seeing a patient the doctor knows, but only 2.4 problems when the patient is not known, speaks to the essence of Family Medicine. It helps quantify the issues of Comprehensiveness, Continuity and Family. It shows the difference in Comprehensiveness, an...
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