Apr 2008

Features

A Systematic Approach to Identifying Drug-Seeking Patients

Richard W. Pretorius; Gina M. Zurick

A New Approach to Group Visits: Helping High-Need Patients Make Behavioral Change

Jean M. Antonucci

Closing the Physician-Staff Divide: A Step Toward Creating the Medical Home

Benjamin F. Crabtree; Reuben R. McDaniel, Jr; Paul A. Nutting; Holly J. Lanham; J. Anna Looney; William L. Miller

Stark III: Refinement Not Revolution (Part 2)

Alice G. Gosfield

How to Protect Your Data When You're on the Web

Adarsh K. Gupta

What You Need to Know When Called Upon to Be a Good Samaritan

Robert J. Dachs; Jay M. Elias

Departments

From the Editor

A Quick Tour of the Changes in FPM
Robert L. Edsall

Opinion

Why Teamwork Will Make or Break Your Practice
Bruce A. Bagley

Coding & Documentation

• Tobacco Cessation Codes • Specimen Transfer to Lab • Home Health Services • Diagnosis Code for Prothrombin Time Testing • Hospital Discharge When the Patient Dies • Hepatitis Test • Nebulizer Supplies

News & Trends

• 2008 Match Results: Family Medicine Shows Slight Improvement • Communities Needed for EHR Demonstration Project • Majority of FPs Wouldn't Do It Again Despite Strong Job Market

Practice Pearls

• Monitor Records Transfers • Use Analogies to Increase Patient Compliance • Have a Garage Sale • Focus on Special Needs • Tracking Follow-Up Care

Letters

• Contemplating Robin Hood Practice

• Patient vs. "Customer-Owner"

• Evaluating the RUC

• Curing Baumol's Disease

The Last Word

A New Epidemic: Administrative Fibrillation
William E. Chavey

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