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Integration & Physician Issues

Improving care delivery, patient safety and nurse staffing are the three most important issues nurses and physicians say management can take steps to improve high-burnout rates among clinicians, according to a study published June 7 in JAMA.

Each generation views the world differently, and there are some communication gaps administrators and systems have not yet bridged with younger physicians, Doug Bruce, MD, chief clinical integration officer at Cleveland-based MetroHealth, recently told Becker's.

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A publicly funded universal healthcare system, also called a single-payer system, could reduce nurse staffing issues without separate laws requiring nurse-patient ratios, Daniel Bryant, MD, leader of the Portland chapter of Maine AllCare, which is devoted to getting universal healthcare…

An Indiana physician filed a lawsuit against Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Lutheran Medical Group to keep it from enforcing a noncompete agreement, The Journal Gazette reported July 6.

Here are the latest employment numbers of nurse practitioners, physician assistants, registered nurses and physicians who are not anesthesiologists, cardiologists, dermatologists, emergency medicine physicians, family medicine physicians, general internal medicine physicians, neurologists, obstetricians and gynecologists, or pathologists. 

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