Your primary care provider is more than just your annual stop for routine checkups. They’re also the central hub for coordinating your health care, from specialist visits to follow-up testing and ...

This study demonstrates significant differences in specialist referral patterns between primary care models. After accounting for patient and provider characteristics, physicians practicing in the FFS ...

Referral patterns by family physicians affect numerous aspects of medical care. This study compares the outpatient referral rates of residents, residency faculty, and clinical faculty. Objectives: ...

Not all children and teens with active asthma are achieving adequate control of their symptoms, and timely referral to secondary care is rare, according to one study. There is a prevalence of poorly ...

A few years ago, physician referral software was a popular area for health IT startups. Now they are getting snapped up by larger health IT vendors seeking to diversify their businesses as accountable ...

We conducted a cross-sectional study using healthcare administrative data collected from April 1st, 2008 to March 31st, 2010 to compare patient referral rates between three different primary care ...