Does organizational and market influence on physician performance on patient experience measures?
Physicians from integrated medical groups and groups with greater numbers of PCPs performed better on several patient experience measures, suggesting that organized care processes adopted by these groups may enhance patients' experiences. Physicians practicing in markets with high concentrations of vulnerable populations may be disadvantaged by constraints that affect performance. Future studies should clarify the extent to which performance deficits associated with area-level deprivation are modifiable.
This is the first demonstration that TSH stimulates PLC activity in normal and neoplastic human thyroid tissue. Aberrant TSH-stimulated PLC activity was present in half of the aggressive thyroid neoplasms.