U.S. Primary Care Physicians lag behind overseas counterparts in crucial areas
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Primary care doctors in the U.S. are less likely than those in several other countries to be able to offer patients access to care outside regular office hours or to have systems that alert doctors to potentially harmful drug interactions. U.S. primary care physicians are also less likely to receive financial incentives for improving patient care, according to the Commonwealth Fund 2006 International Health Policy Survey published today as a Health Affairs Web Exclusive.
You can read the Commonwealth Fund article at
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.25.w555
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Kathleen Ford
mailto:kford@projecthope.org