title: Designing the future: physician poll rates the trends.
abstract: A recent interactive electronic poll of 160 physicians attending an educational conference at ACPE's Future Forum reveals some opinions physicians have about the transition of medicine into the 21st century. Emerging issues include capitation, quality, law, and how to manage integrated delivery systems. Overall, respondents are concerned about remaining solvent is a capitated managed care environment.
authors.affiliation: Health Forecasting Group, Santa Clarita, CA, USA.
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Coile
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002204:Capitation Fee / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003625:Data Collection; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D008486:Physician Executives / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data