▪ Abstract Recent developments in basic research suggest that therapeutic breakthroughs
may occur in Alzheimer's disease treatment over the coming decades. To model the …

Objective Care remains suboptimal for a substantial proportion of the more than 17 million
patients in the United States with diabetes. This review examines strategies for improving …

Context. The benefits of continuity of pediatric care remain controversial. Objective. To
determine whether there is an association between having a continuous relationship with a …

ContextFew data are available regarding how patients view the role of primary care
physicians as" gatekeepers" in managed care systems. ObjectiveTo determine the extent to …

OBJECTIVE: Nonurgent conditions account for 58% to 82% of pediatric emergency
department (ED) visits, but only 1 preliminary qualitative study has examined reasons why …

Abstract The Anglo‐American institution of the profession is mutating: we propose to analyse
this mutation as a contested diffusion process that spreads new organizing practices among …

Introduction Care coordination is a high-priority area for improvement across healthcare
systems, but no consensus definition of care coordination exists. Methods This article …

Study objective: Most studies of place effects on health have followed the multilevel
analytical approach that investigates geographical variations of health phenomena by …

Propósitos de contenção de gastos em saúde e exigências de mudanças no perfil
epidemiológico, impulsionaram durante a década de 90 reformas organizacionais dos …

Primary care is essential to the effective and efficient functioning of health care delivery
systems, yet there is an impending crisis in the field due in part to a dysfunctional payment …