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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 medica
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a. Changes in Medicare reimbursemen WE WE WE
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b. Competition from nonphysicians desiring WE WE WE EW
to meet primary care shortages
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c. The need for monopolistic control in the
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marketplace of primary outpatient care WE WE WE WE
d. The recognition that nonphysicians have
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variable success providing primary care WE WE WE WE
ANS: A W E
The Physician Payment Review Commission in 1992 directly increased financial reimbur
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sement to clinicians who provide primary care. Coupled with a shortage of primary care
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providers, this incentive led medical schools to place greater emphasis onpreparing prim
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ary care physicians. Competition from nonphysicians increased coincidentally as professi
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onals from other disciplines stepped up to meet the needs.
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Nonphysicians have had increasing success at providing primary care and have beensho
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wn 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 mor
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eappropriate medications than younge
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r physicians.
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b. Antibiotic medications remain in the to WE WE WE WE WE
pfive classifications of medications pres
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c. Most physicians rely on a “therapeutic a
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100 drug preparations per physician.
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d. The dominant form of drug information
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used by primary care physicians continues
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to be that provided by pharmaceutical co
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Even though most physicians claim to place little weight on drug advertisements,
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