Running Group Visits in Your Practice

• Main Author: Noffsinger, Edward B. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer US, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Family medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; General Practice / Family Medicine.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b106441

With health care costs on the rise, poor access to primary and specialty care, the complexities of the health insurance system and the demands on a physicians time, the traditional model of one-on-one medical visits no longer best serves patients or health care providers. Patient demand is only inc...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1. Group Visits: The Next Step in Medical Care
• Introduction to group visits
• The Drop-In Group Medical Appointment model: a revolutionary access solution for follow-up visits
• Drop-in group medical appointments: strengths, weaknesses, and real-life examples
• The Cooperative Health Care Clinic Model: following the same group of multi-morbid geriatric patients over time
• The Physicals Shared Medical Appointment model: a revolutionary access solution for private physical examinations
• Physician buy-in: the key to successful shared medical appointment programs
• A comprehensive chronic illness treatment paradigm that makes full use of group visits
• Do not abuse group visits
• Reports, case studies and outcomes data
• Part 2. How to Implement Your Own Group Visit Program
• Twenty essential steps to implementing a successful group visit program
• A 10-week pipeline for launching new DIGMAs and PSMAs
• Suggested readings.