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Home Research Research Library A Primary Care Panel Size of 2500 Is neither Accurate nor Reasonable A Primary Care Panel Size of 2500 Is neither Accurate nor Reasonable 2016 Author(s) Raffoul, M C, Moore, M, Kamerow, D B, and Bazemore, Andrew W Topic(s) Role of Primary Care Keyword(s) Practice Organization / Ownership Volume 29(4):496-499 Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Primary care panel sizes are an important component of primary care practices. Determining the appropriate panel size has implications for patient access, physician workload, and care comprehensiveness and will have an impact on quality of care. An often quoted standard panel size is 2500. However, this number seems to arise in the literature anecdotally, without a basis in research. Subsequently, multiple studies observed that a panel size of 2500 is not feasible because of time constraints and results in incomplete preventive care and health care screening services. In this article we review the origins of a panel size of 2500, review the subsequent work examining this number and effectively debunking it as a feasible panel size, and discuss the importance of primary care physicians setting an appropriate panel size. Read More ABFM Research Read all 2022 Academic Medicine’s Fourth Mission: Building on Community-Oriented Primary Care to Achieve Community-Engaged Health Care Go to Academic Medicine’s Fourth Mission: Building on Community-Oriented Primary Care to Achieve Community-Engaged Health Care 2021 Digital health needs for implementing high-quality primary care: recommendations from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Go to Digital health needs for implementing high-quality primary care: recommendations from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2020 Improving Performance Improvement Go to Improving Performance Improvement 1964 General Practice: A Eulogy Go to General Practice: A Eulogy
Author(s) Raffoul, M C, Moore, M, Kamerow, D B, and Bazemore, Andrew W Topic(s) Role of Primary Care Keyword(s) Practice Organization / Ownership Volume 29(4):496-499 Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
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2022 Academic Medicine’s Fourth Mission: Building on Community-Oriented Primary Care to Achieve Community-Engaged Health Care Go to Academic Medicine’s Fourth Mission: Building on Community-Oriented Primary Care to Achieve Community-Engaged Health Care
2021 Digital health needs for implementing high-quality primary care: recommendations from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Go to Digital health needs for implementing high-quality primary care: recommendations from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
