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, Chapter 01: Prescriptive Authority and Role Implementation: Tradition vs. ChangeTest
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1. Which of the following has influenced an emphasis on primary care education in medical sc
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a. Changes in Medicare reimbursement metho dt dt dt dt



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c. The need for monopolistic control in the ma
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d. The recognition that nonphysicians have vari
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able success providing primary care
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The Physician Payment Review Commission in 1992 directly increased financial reimburse
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ment to clinicians who provide primary care. Coupled with a shortage of primary care provid
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ers, this incentive led medical schools to place greater emphasis on preparing primary care
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physicians. Competition from nonphysicians increased coincidentally as professionals fro
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m other disciplines stepped up to meet the needs.
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Nonphysicians have had increasing success at providing primary care and have been shown
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to be safe and effective.
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2. Which of the following statements is true about the prescribing practices of physicians?
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a. Older physicians tend to prescribe more ap dt dt dt dt dt dt



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b. Antibiotic medications remain in the top f dt dt dt dt dt dt



ive classifications of medications pres
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c. Most physicians rely on a “therapeutic ar
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d. The dominant form of drug information us
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ed by primary care physicians continues to b
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e that provided by pharmaceutical comp
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Even though most physicians claim to place little weight on drug advertisements,
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