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Hospitals & Doctors

PROLOGUE

Hospitals & Doctors

The past two decades have seen the slow decline of a model of health care in which U.S. primary care doctors also have overseen their patients’ needs if and when they entered the hospital. Back then, write Lawrence Casalino and colleagues in the paper that follows, hospitals were the "physician’s workshop"—providing office-based doctors with the equipment and staff they needed to deliver higher levels of care. But now newer arrangements are thoroughly transforming this long-standing doctor-hospital relationship.

The story is told in data from the Community Tracking Study, sponsored by the Center for Studying Health System Change. One transforming force, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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