Psychiatry related information on Group Practice, Prepaid

• Kaiser Permanente Northwest Region is a prepaid group-practice managed health care organization serving more than 380,000 members in Oregon and southwest Washington. A multidepartmental team at Northwest Region designed and implemented a stepped-care approach to smoking cessation in March 1992 [1].

High impact information on Group Practice, Prepaid

• The results of mortality analyses were inconsistent: using Kaplan-Meier estimates, the persons with RA in prepaid group practice settings survived significantly longer (P<.05 by long-rank test); using Cox proportional hazards methods, the proportion dying each year did not differ signficantly [2].
• Cefotaxime single-dose surgical prophylaxis in a prepaid group practice. Comparisons with other cephalosporins and ticarcillin/clavulanic acid [3].
• SUBJECTS: A cohort of 2379 girls recruited from selected schools in Richmond, Calif., and greater Cincinnati, Ohio, and from the membership rolls of a prepaid group practice in greater Washington, D.C. RESULTS: Sixty-four percent of black girls had begun pubertal maturation compared with 33% of white girls [4].
• Evaluation of an intervention to change benzodiazepine-prescribing behavior in a prepaid group practice setting [5].
• The study is at Northwest Region of Kaiser Permanente (NWKP), a large hospital-based prepaid group practice HMO in Portland, OR [6].

Associations of Group Practice, Prepaid with chemical compounds

• SETTING: Kaiser Permanente, Northwest Region, a prepaid group practice HMO [7].
• Single-dose cephalosporin prophylaxis of 929 surgical procedures in a prepaid group practice: a prospective, randomized comparison of cefoperazone and cefotaxime [8].

Gene context of Group Practice, Prepaid

• The Seattle Prepaid Health Care Evaluation Project is a comparative study designed to assess the care received by persons enrolled in either a large prepaid group practice (PGP) or in a prepaid, independent practice setting in which physicians are reimbursed on a fee-for-service basis (IPP) [9].

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