Dear Group,
Thanks to all who responded with information. Thanks in particular go to
Ione Auston and Neil Rambo who found the two articles for which I was
particularly searching. Thanks also to Ricardo Pietrobon, Karen Lowton and
Zelda DiBlasi.
For those of you who asked me to share the results of my inquiry, the two
articles were:
(1) TITLE: Linking primary care performance to outcomes of care [see
comments]
AUTHORS: Safran DG; Taira DA; Rogers WH; Kosinski M; Ware JE; Tarlov AR
AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Health Institute, New England Medical Center, Boston,
MA 02111, USA. [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
SOURCE: J Fam Pract. 1998 Sep;47(3):213-20.
SECONDARY SOURCE ID: MED/98424941
COMMENT: Comment in: J Fam Pract 1999 Feb;48(2):150
And
(2) TITLE: Physician practice styles and patient outcomes: differences
between family practice and general internal medicine.
AUTHORS: Bertakis KD; Callahan EJ; Helms LJ; Azari R; Robbins JA;
Miller J
AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Department of Family and Community Medicine,
University of California, Davis, Sacramento 95817, USA.
SOURCE: Med Care. 1998 Jun;36(6):879-91.
SECONDARY SOURCE ID: MED/98292081
An article by Thom et al in Standford, published in Academic Medicine,1999,
74, 2, 195-198 was mentioned by two individuals.
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