scholarly journals Primary Care: Can Seeds Of Innovation Take Root?Breaking Point: How The Primary Care Crisis Endangers The Lives Of Americans by Geyman John Friday Harbor (WA) : Copernicus Healthcare , 2011 234 pp.; $18.95

2012 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 650-651
Author(s):  
Thomas Bodenheimer
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Breaking Point ◽  
Friday Harbor

Fool’s Gold: Psychologists Using Disingenuous Reasoning to Mislead Legislatures into Granting Psychologists Prescriptive Authority

2003 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-524
Author(s):  
Brent Pollitt
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Nurse Practitioners ◽  
Primary Care Physicians ◽  
American Psychological Association ◽  
The United States ◽  
Psychotropic Medications ◽  
American Psychological ◽  
Training Requirements ◽  
Prescriptive Authority

Mental illness is a serious problem in the United States. Based on “current epidemiological estimates, at least one in five people has a diagnosable mental disorder during the course of a year.” Fortunately, many of these disorders respond positively to psychotropic medications. While psychiatrists write some of the prescriptions for psychotropic medications, primary care physicians write more of them. State legislatures, seeking to expand patient access to pharmacological treatment, granted physician assistants and nurse practitioners prescriptive authority for psychotropic medications. Over the past decade other groups have gained some form of prescriptive authority. Currently, psychologists comprise the primary group seeking prescriptive authority for psychotropic medications.The American Society for the Advancement of Pharmacotherapy (“ASAP”), a division of the American Psychological Association (“APA”), spearheads the drive for psychologists to gain prescriptive authority. The American Psychological Association offers five main reasons why legislatures should grant psychologists this privilege: 1) psychologists’ education and clinical training better qualify them to diagnose and treat mental illness in comparison with primary care physicians; 2) the Department of Defense Psychopharmacology Demonstration Project (“PDP”) demonstrated non-physician psychologists can prescribe psychotropic medications safely; 3) the recommended post-doctoral training requirements adequately prepare psychologists to prescribe safely psychotropic medications; 4) this privilege will increase availability of mental healthcare services, especially in rural areas; and 5) this privilege will result in an overall reduction in medical expenses, because patients will visit only one healthcare provider instead of two–one for psychotherapy and one for medication.

How Do We Incorporate Hearing Screening Into Primary Care?

ASHA Leader ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 18-19
Author(s):  
Barbara E. Weinstein
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Hearing Screening

An evaluation of two primary care interventions for alcohol abuse among Mexican-American patients

Addiction ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 92 (12) ◽  
pp. 1705-1716 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra K. Burge ◽  
Nancy Amodei ◽  
Bernice Elkin ◽  
Selina Catala ◽  
Sylvia Rodriguez Andrew ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Alcohol Abuse ◽  
Mexican American

Assessment of Helicobacter pylori infection in primary care: Which test to use?

2001 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. A580-A580
Author(s):  
C WEIJNEN ◽  
N DEWIT ◽  
M NUMANS ◽  
E KUIPERS ◽  
A HOES ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Helicobacter Pylori ◽  
Helicobacter Pylori Infection

1566: BPH Management in an HMO Setting: Differences between Primary Care Physicians and Urologists

2007 ◽  
Vol 177 (4S) ◽  
pp. 517-517
Author(s):  
John M. Hollingsworth ◽  
Stephanie Daignault ◽  
Brent K. Hollenbeck ◽  
John T. Wei
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Primary Care Physicians
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