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The ABCs of Group Visits

An Implementation Manual For Your Practice

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Edward B. Noffsinger

    1. Santa Cruz, USA

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  • Quick reference for working health care professionals
  • Takes you from zero to running successful group visits
  • Filled with tips and ideas
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxv
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  2. Why Try Group Visits in Your Practice?

    • Edward B. Noffsinger
    Pages 1-22

  3. Today’s Three Major Group Visit Models

    • Edward B. Noffsinger
    Pages 23-111

  4. Twelve Key First Steps

    • Edward B. Noffsinger
    Pages 113-174

  5. Weeks Ten and Nine Prior to Launching Your Group Visit

    • Edward B. Noffsinger
    Pages 175-194

  6. Weeks Eight, Seven, and Six Prior to Launch

    • Edward B. Noffsinger
    Pages 195-215

  7. Weeks Five, Four, and Three Prior to Launch

    • Edward B. Noffsinger
    Pages 217-232

  8. Weeks Two and One Prior to Launch

    • Edward B. Noffsinger
    Pages 233-273

  9. The Launch of Your New Group Visit and Thereafter

    • Edward B. Noffsinger
    Pages 275-328

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 327-333
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About this book

The US healthcare system faces numerous difficulties: uncontrolled increases in costs; major access problems; doctor shortages; closing practices; inefficiencies; decreasing revenues; shrinking bottom lines; large numbers of uninsured and underinsured patients; and the upcoming increased demands in service posed by the Affordable Care Act. As a result, many physicians and health care organications are turning to group visits to address these problems. While Dr. Noffsinger's textbook Running Group Visits In Your Practice is the cornerstone reference on designing, implementing and running shared medical appointments (SMAs) in one's practice, it lacks the simplicity and practicality that clinicians are looking for to start their own SMA programs. The ABCs of Group Visits is a practical, streamlined and step-by-step guide focused on the implementation aspects of group visits.Healthcare professionals at every level are looking for alternate ways to deliver high quality care at lower cost, and it is clear to many that group visits provide a care delivery model that will address many of today's critical challenges.  The ABCs of Group Visits quickly provides a solution for your busy practice.

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“This book describes a new way to schedule office visits that brings a number of patients together for medical diagnoses, similar to group counseling sessions run by psychologists. The purpose is to provide an implementation guide for the underlying philosophy and tenets of group visits with the many practical aspects that psychologists have already worked through. … The audience is … those engaged in the discussion of how to deliver medical care in the future.” (Vincent F. Carr, Doody's Book Reviews, March, 2013)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Santa Cruz, USA

    Edward B. Noffsinger

About the author

Dr. Edward B. Noffsinger is a pioneer in group visits and the originator of two of today’s three major group visit models.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The ABCs of Group Visits

  • Book Subtitle: An Implementation Manual For Your Practice

  • Authors: Edward B. Noffsinger

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3526-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-3525-9

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-3526-6

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXV, 333

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations

  • Additional Information: Adapted loosely from Dr. Noffsinger's Springer book "Running Group Visits in Your Practice."

  • Topics: Practice and Hospital Management, Medicine/Public Health, general, General Practice / Family Medicine, Primary Care Medicine

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