ABSTRACT
To meet the needs of an aging population who often have multiple chronic conditions, interprofessional care is increasingly adopted by patient-centred medical homes and Accountable Care Organisations to improve patient care coordination and decrease costs in the United States, especially in underserved areas with primary care workforce shortages. In this cross-sectional survey across multiple clinical settings in an underserved area, healthcare providers perceived overall outcomes associated with interprofessional care teams as positive. This included healthcare providers' beliefs that interprofessional care teams improved patient outcomes, increased clinic efficiency, and enhanced care coordination and patient follow-up. Teams with primary care physician available each day were perceived as better able to coordinate care and follow up with patients (p = .031), while teams that included clinical pharmacists were perceived as preventing medication-associated problems (p < .0001). Healthcare providers perceived the interprofessional care model as a useful strategy to improve various outcomes across different clinical settings in the context of a shortage of primary care physicians.
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Health Personnel/psychology , Health Services Accessibility/organization & administration , Interprofessional Relations , Medically Underserved Area , Primary Health Care/organization & administration , Adult , Aged , Attitude of Health Personnel , Cross-Sectional Studies , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Perception , Physicians, Primary Care/organization & administration , Professional RoleSubject(s)
Drug and Narcotic Control/legislation & jurisprudence , Practice Patterns, Physicians'/legislation & jurisprudence , Prescription Drugs/supply & distribution , Humans , Medication Systems, Hospital/legislation & jurisprudence , Medication Systems, Hospital/statistics & numerical data , Practice Patterns, Physicians'/statistics & numerical data , Time , United StatesSubject(s)
Family Practice/standards , Practice Patterns, Physicians' , Prostate-Specific Antigen/blood , Aged , Humans , MaleSubject(s)
Exercise Test , Family Practice , Predictive Value of Tests , Cardiovascular Diseases/diagnosis , HumansSubject(s)
Drug Industry/standards , Drug Prescriptions/standards , Fraud/prevention & control , Security Measures/standards , Consumer Product Safety/legislation & jurisprudence , Drug Contamination , Drug Industry/legislation & jurisprudence , Drug Packaging/standards , Fraud/legislation & jurisprudence , Humans , Internationality , Internet , Marketing , Security Measures/legislation & jurisprudence , United StatesABSTRACT
Many physicians and other providers attempt therapeutic warfarin oversight without regularly scheduled anticoagulation appointments. Studies show that the risk of major bleeding or thromboembolic events due to warfarin therapy is between 2 percent and 12 percent per year. Point-of-care anticoagulation devices are convenient for patients and physicians and allow for patient-focused anticoagulation care.