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, Chapter 01: Prescriptive Authority and Role Implementation: Tradition vs. ChangeTe
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The Physician Payment Review Commission in 1992 directly increased financial reimb
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ursement to clinicians who provide primary care. Coupled with a shortage of primary
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care providers, this incentive led medical schools to place greater emphasis onprepa
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ring primary care physicians. Competition from nonphysicians increased coincidentall
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Nonphysicians have had increasing success at providing primary care and have beens
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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 mo
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Even though most physicians claim to place little weight on drug advertisements,
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