Nursing and Health Care Gateway Gateway

Italian patients of low socioeconomic status are more likely to need hospitalization for chronic conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and heart failure, which calls for more efficient primary care to close the health status gap.

Primary care physicians in the United States should do the routine pediatric follow up and preventive care for known conditions currently done by pediatric specialists, in order to lower the demand on this group.

Patients satisfaction with post-operative care after hip or knee replacement not only provides an indicator of quality of the treatment, but also appears to be a good predictor of self-perceived health status.

Primary care physicians found that although a trial of a communication-based intervention for managing patients with medically unexplained symptoms showed only modest results, it helped them understand patients' suffering and improved the doctor-patient relationship.

Health insurance affects utilization of health services by Chinese migrant workers, with the uninsured more likely to be younger, single, female and less educated and this group less likely to use medical care.