Preventive practice among primary care physicians in British Columbia: relation to recommendations of the Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination.

HE Smith, CP Herbert - CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association …, 1993 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
OBJECTIVES: To compare the current practice of preventive medicine in British Columbia
with the recommendations of the Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination …

Cancer prevention practices and continuing education needs of primary care physicians

ME Costanza, NE Hoople, VP Gaw… - American Journal of …, 1993 - Elsevier
We surveyed 1,500 primary care physicians in Massachusetts regarding their current
attitudes and practices, as well as their interests and preferences in regard to a continuing …

Improving physician compliance with preventive medicine guidelines

DI Cohen, B Littenberg, C Wetzel - Medical Care, 1982 - journals.lww.com
Similar general medical outpatient clinics with randomly assigned patients were used to
evaluate the effectiveness of a program that was to increase house staff compliance with …

Patterns of preventive practice in New Brunswick

RN Battista, CS Palmer, BM Marchand… - Canadian Medical …, 1985 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A survey of active general practitioners was conducted in New Brunswick to ascertain their
patterns of preventive practice with respect to cancer of four anatomic sites: the breast, the …

Prevention in primary care: variability in physician practice patterns in New York City

DH Gemson, J Elinson - American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 1986 - Elsevier
We conducted a telephone survey of 120 randomly selected primary care physicians in New
York City. This survey, which was completed in October 1984, concerned physicians' …

Prevention services in primary care: taking time, setting priorities.

M Rafferty - Western Journal of Medicine, 1998 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Preventive services are delivered at rates far below recommended levels. Although lack of
time has frequently been cited as an important factor, little is known about how much time …

Determinants of preventive practices in fee-for-service primary care

RN Battista, JI Williams, LA MacFarlane - American Journal of Preventive …, 1990 - Elsevier
A study of primary care physicians was conducted in the provinces of Quebec and New
Brunswick, Canada, to ascertain their patterns of preventive practice with respect to cancer …

Family practice residents' compliance with preventive medicine recommendations

PD Morris, ER Morris - American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 1988 - Elsevier
We conducted a medical records survey of 270 randomly selected patients 20 years of age
or older seen by family practice residents in a university-based training program. This study …

Missed opportunities for prevention in general internal medicine

R Brull, WA Ghali, H Quan - Cmaj, 1999 - Can Med Assoc
BACKGROUND: According to the Canadian Society of Internal Medicine, the Canadian
general internist is in the ideal position to promote patient health through disease …

Improving preventive care for women: impact of a performance improvement program in a family practice office.

JM Gill, SA McClellan - Delaware medical journal, 1998 - europepmc.org
Purpose In 1993, the Family Medicine Center (FMC) at the Medical Center of Delaware
(MCD) implemented a performance improvement (PI) program to increase rates of adult …