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Procedures in Family PracticeWhat's Best for Your Patients and for You
Allen J. Dietrich, MD
Arch Fam Med. 1993;2(10):1028-1030.
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WHICH DIAGNOSTIC and screening procedures should you personally offer your patients and which should you leave for your consultants? A survey of family physicians in the state of Washington1 provides information worth considering as we approach major, but, as yet, undefined changes in the US health care system. The survey provides data from only one state and only on those physicians belonging to the Washington Academy of Family Physicians. It was conducted in 1989, well before support for health care reform gathered momentum. The same family physicians might respond differently today and may well respond differently 12 months from now. However, the subject of diagnostic and screening procedures in family practice is a timely one. In the current context of a changing health care environment, the responses of these physicians 4 years ago offer useful insights to those of us considering the addition of new procedures to our
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Author Affiliations
Department of Community and Family Medicine Dartmouth Medical School and Dartmouth Hitchcock Community Health Center Hanover, NH
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