Primary Health Care
Primary Care Physician Guide to Psoriatic Disease
Q&A: Report shows primary care crisis is growing
The decline in the number of clinicians and in spending in primary care over the last several years have exacerbated the current primary care crisis, according to a new report from the Primary Care Collaborative and Robert Graham Center.
More than half of patients with TB had no symptoms before testing positive
Researchers found high rates of tuberculosis among high-risk patients who sought care at primary health care clinics, many of whom had no preceding symptoms suggesting a high rate of subclinical TB.
VIDEO: Oral health ‘should be part of primary health care’
Over the past 2 decades, the cost of dental care increased about 30% per person in the United States, according to a recent perspective in The New England Journal of Medicine.
PCP density decreasing in rural US counties
Rural counties in the United States have a lower density of primary care physicians compared with urban counties, and the PCP workforce is decreasing in half of these counties, according to research published in JAMA Network Open.
Hard time and health care: Challenges in caring for the prison population
The environment is uninviting and uncaring. It’s loud, it’s cold and it’s dangerous. And it’s even worse for the inmates.
COVID-19 may cause many primary care practices to close, creating ‘crisis on steroids’
Many primary care practices have needed to lay off or furlough staff and potentially face closure in the next 4 weeks, according to results of a survey conducted by the Primary Care Collaborative and the Larry A. Green Center.