Description
Book SynopsisPrimary care, the fundamental practice of medicine, is at a crossroads. Changes in population demographics and in the financing and organization of the health care system are forcing changes in the role of physicians. This book presents fills a gap in the literature and offers a view that is at once authoritative, innovative and controversial.
Trade Review"Overall the book is an excellent reference for those interested in primary care practice." (
The Journal of Pharmacy Technology; 1/1/2005)
Table of ContentsPreface ix
The Authors xiii
Part One: Primary Care at a Crossroads 1
1 Primary Care in Crisis: Current Pressures and Threats to Primary Care as We Know It 3
Gordon T.Moore
2 Primary Care Performance: Views from the Patient 17
Dana Gelb Safran
3 The Internet, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and Self-Care 40
Bernard Lo
Part Two: The Components of Primary Care: Processes and Providers 59
4 Deconstructing Primary Care 61
Barbara Starfield
5 Nontraditional Approaches to Primary Care Delivery 89
Helen Burstin, Carolyn Clancy
6 The Specialist as Primary Care Provider 109
Harry R. Kimball
7 Advanced Practice Nurses: The Preferred Primary Care Providers for the Twenty-First Century 120
Mary O’Neil Mundinger
Part Three: Reconstructing Primary Care for Patients and Populations 141
8 Is Primary Care Worthy of Physicians? An Ecological Perspective 143
Larry A. Green
9 Primary Care in a New Era: Disillusion and Dissolution? 161
Lewis Sandy, Steven Schroeder
10 Chronic Illness Management in Primary Care 180
Arlyss Anderson Rothman, Edward H.Wagner
11 Reconstructing Primary Care of the Elderly 203
Eric B. Larson
12 Palliative Care and Primary Care: Opportunities for Cooperation and Improvement 223
Christine Cassel, Beth Demel
13 Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Disorders, Psychosocial Problems, and Behavioral Interventions in Primary Care 243
Harold A. Pincus
14 Primary Care for Children and Adolescents 276
Michael Weitzman, Jonathan D. Klein, Tina L. Cheng
Part Four: Recommendations for the Future 299
15 Primary Care: The Next Renaissance 301
Jonathan Showstack, Nicole Lurie, Eric B. Larson, Arlyss Anderson Rothman, Susan B. Hassmiller
Name Index 313
Subject Index 320
