Neil J Farber
Biographic Data
| ID | 1740685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil J Farber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil J |
| FAMILY NAME | Farber |
| SIGNATURE | FARBER N J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Christiana Care Health System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
When the Patient Does Not Pay
OBJECTIVE: Despite ethical implications, there are anecdotal reports of health practitioners withholding services from patients who do not pay their bills. We surveyed physicians about their attitudes and experiences regarding nonpaying patients. DESIGN: A cross-sectional mailed survey. PARTICIPANTS: Three hundred seventy-nine of 1000 surveyed primary care physicians participated. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: We studied how likely participants …
Physicians' willingness to report impaired colleagues
The biotechnology “wheel of fortune”
Screening for Psychiatric Disorders in Medical Patients
This study examines whether medical patients were bothered or upset by being asked to complete a questionnaire about emotional and substance use problems, and whether a newly developed, brief questionnaire that screens for several psychiatric disorders (the SCREENER) was easy for patients to complete. A consecutive series of outpatients attending the General Medical Clinic at the Philadelphia Veterans Affair Medical Center (VAMC) was approached t…
A Changing Health Care Decision-Making Environment
The increasing pressure to contain costs is bringing a new member to the "traditional" health delivery team, the professionally(and nonmedically-) trained administrator. In this paper, we examine the root differences in attitudes of physicians and this emerging administrative group exhibited in response to simulated life-threatening scenarios. When cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is indicated, physicians in our sample focus on the future "wor…
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
The authors studied the effect of various patient factors (biomedical, mental status, and psychosocial) on the decision to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation by internal medicine house staff and registered nurses. Clinical vignettes were utilized to assess the likelihood of initiation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) by the respondents. In most cases, these factors had similar significant effects on decisions to initiate CPR by both phys…
Physicians' willingness to report impaired colleagues
A Changing Health Care Decision-Making Environment
The increasing pressure to contain costs is bringing a new member to the "traditional" health delivery team, the professionally(and nonmedically-) trained administrator. In this paper, we examine the root differences in attitudes of physicians and this emerging administrative group exhibited in response to simulated life-threatening scenarios. When cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is indicated, physicians in our sample focus on the future "wor…
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
The authors studied the effect of various patient factors (biomedical, mental status, and psychosocial) on the decision to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation by internal medicine house staff and registered nurses. Clinical vignettes were utilized to assess the likelihood of initiation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) by the respondents. In most cases, these factors had similar significant effects on decisions to initiate CPR by both phys…
A Changing Health Care Decision-Making Environment
The increasing pressure to contain costs is bringing a new member to the "traditional" health delivery team, the professionally(and nonmedically-) trained administrator. In this paper, we examine the root differences in attitudes of physicians and this emerging administrative group exhibited in response to simulated life-threatening scenarios. When cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is indicated, physicians in our sample focus on the future "wor…
Screening for Psychiatric Disorders in Medical Patients
This study examines whether medical patients were bothered or upset by being asked to complete a questionnaire about emotional and substance use problems, and whether a newly developed, brief questionnaire that screens for several psychiatric disorders (the SCREENER) was easy for patients to complete. A consecutive series of outpatients attending the General Medical Clinic at the Philadelphia Veterans Affair Medical Center (VAMC) was approached t…
The biotechnology “wheel of fortune”
Physicians' willingness to report impaired colleagues
When the Patient Does Not Pay
OBJECTIVE: Despite ethical implications, there are anecdotal reports of health practitioners withholding services from patients who do not pay their bills. We surveyed physicians about their attitudes and experiences regarding nonpaying patients. DESIGN: A cross-sectional mailed survey. PARTICIPANTS: Three hundred seventy-nine of 1000 surveyed primary care physicians participated. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: We studied how likely participants …
Medicine (5 works) · Family medicine (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (2 works) · Cross-sectional study (2 works) · Health care (2 works) · Healthcare Policy and Management (2 works) · Psychiatry (2 works)