title: A Comprehensive Health Group Practice Model.
abstract: Permanente Dental Associates includes 17 offices in the Pacific Northwest. Among the distinguishing characteristics of this model are a predominantly HMO structure and integration of care in a general medical program. Staff dentists are on salary and are largely relieved of the business details of practice. Ultimate control of the system is vested in a group of shareholders--the dentists who practice chairside. One of the shareholder-practitioners discusses his perspective on this system.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pihlstrom
authors.forename: Danny
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: White
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006124:Group Practice, Dental / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D015205:Northwestern United States; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D011215:Practice Management, Dental / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019239:Practice Patterns, Dentists' / Q000458:organization & administration*