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A new approach to making your doctor-nurse team more productive.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Anderson, P. J. Halley, Marc D. |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | Myriad factors are challenging the financial viability of physician practices in general and primary care practices in particular. Downward pressure on reimbursement combined with increasing costs have ratcheted up the pressure on physicians to see more patients each day just to stay even. The increasing administrative burden on physicians and their clinical staff has heightened frustration, reduced productivity and career satisfaction, and increased the potential for clinical errors. None of this is news, of course; the situation has been worsening for years. But new ways of surmounting the problems are continually appearing. A key part of responding to the current threats to medical practice viability is what we call “highest and best use staffing”; that is, structuring work processes to ensure that 1) the physician does only what he or she is trained to do, with appropriate delegation of all lesser tasks, and 2) clinical staff members do only what they are trained to do, with appropriate delegation of all lesser tasks. In a typical practice, the failure to delegate hampers efficiency, which in turn hampers practice finances. In a new approach to the clinical visit called family team care, one of the authors |
| Starting Page | 35 |
| Ending Page | 40 |
| Page Count | 6 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| PubMed reference number | 18763683 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 15 |
| Issue Number | 7 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2008/0700/p35.pdf |
| Journal | Family practice management |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
