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(2) Status asthmaticus with hypercapnea despite adequate ventilation required diagnosis by the contact physician.
Providers of primary care services play a critical role in determining patient compliance with preventive services through direct recommendations to their patients [ 10 11 12 ] . Women who were "off schedule" for regular mammograms were significantly less likely to have a regular physician and to have received a physician recommendation for a mammogram than "on schedule" women [ 13 ] . Another study of family physicians and general internists showed that 70% of women who received a provider referral completed a screening mammography within one year versus only 18% of self-referred women [ 12 ] . Over 90% of rural women report that a doctor's recommendation to have breast cancer screening is "important" [ 14 ] .
The other main strategies for changing physician behavior include feedback, financial incentives, rationing and penalties [ 19 ] . Feedback - when given at all - is typically aggregate and retrospective.
The validity or reliability of physician diagnosis in terms of ICD9 codes is neither known nor readily amenable to measurement.
For example, only 21% of survivors of myocardial infarction are treated with beta-blockers by their primary care physician, despite the fact that expert consensus panels consider this omission a serious medical error.