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Home Research Research Library Comparing Comprehensiveness in Primary Care Specialties and Their Effects on Healthcare Costs and Hospitalizations in Medicare Beneficiaries Comparing Comprehensiveness in Primary Care Specialties and Their Effects on Healthcare Costs and Hospitalizations in Medicare Beneficiaries 2019 Author(s) Henry, Tracey L, Petterson, Stephen M, Phillips, Russell S, Phillips, Robert L, and Bazemore, Andrew W Topic(s) What Family Physicians Do Keyword(s) Medicare, and Urgent / Emergent Care Volume Journal of General Internal Medicine Source Journal of General Internal Medicine Four essential features of primary care, identified by Barbara Starfield, include the following: first contact, continuity, coordination, and comprehensiveness.1 Comprehensiveness, defined as offering a “range of services broad enough to care for all health needs except those too uncommon to maintain competence,” includes meeting the large majority of each patient’s physical and mental healthcare needs.1 However, while comprehensiveness is thought to be in decline among primary care physicians (PCPs), little has been done to capture its value in policy-relevant terms such as cost and quality, important in this era of value-based purchasing.2 A recent study developed and tested a measure of comprehensiveness among family physicians revealed a modest association with lower healthcare utilization and costs among Medicare patients.3 This paper extends this work by comparing family physicians and general internists in comprehensiveness and its impact on similar outcomes. Read More ABFM Research Read all 2015 Making Personalized Health Care Even More Personalized: Insights From Activities of the IOM Genomics Roundtable Go to Making Personalized Health Care Even More Personalized: Insights From Activities of the IOM Genomics Roundtable 1979 Panel: “role of the specialist in the emergency room” Go to Panel: “role of the specialist in the emergency room” 2025 The Association Between Residency Characteristics and Graduates Caring for Children: A Family Medicine Residency Outcomes Project Go to The Association Between Residency Characteristics and Graduates Caring for Children: A Family Medicine Residency Outcomes Project 2017 Family Physicians Practicing High-Volume Obstetric Care Have Recently Dropped by One-Half Go to Family Physicians Practicing High-Volume Obstetric Care Have Recently Dropped by One-Half
Author(s) Henry, Tracey L, Petterson, Stephen M, Phillips, Russell S, Phillips, Robert L, and Bazemore, Andrew W Topic(s) What Family Physicians Do Keyword(s) Medicare, and Urgent / Emergent Care Volume Journal of General Internal Medicine Source Journal of General Internal Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2015 Making Personalized Health Care Even More Personalized: Insights From Activities of the IOM Genomics Roundtable Go to Making Personalized Health Care Even More Personalized: Insights From Activities of the IOM Genomics Roundtable 1979 Panel: “role of the specialist in the emergency room” Go to Panel: “role of the specialist in the emergency room” 2025 The Association Between Residency Characteristics and Graduates Caring for Children: A Family Medicine Residency Outcomes Project Go to The Association Between Residency Characteristics and Graduates Caring for Children: A Family Medicine Residency Outcomes Project 2017 Family Physicians Practicing High-Volume Obstetric Care Have Recently Dropped by One-Half Go to Family Physicians Practicing High-Volume Obstetric Care Have Recently Dropped by One-Half
2015 Making Personalized Health Care Even More Personalized: Insights From Activities of the IOM Genomics Roundtable Go to Making Personalized Health Care Even More Personalized: Insights From Activities of the IOM Genomics Roundtable
1979 Panel: “role of the specialist in the emergency room” Go to Panel: “role of the specialist in the emergency room”
2025 The Association Between Residency Characteristics and Graduates Caring for Children: A Family Medicine Residency Outcomes Project Go to The Association Between Residency Characteristics and Graduates Caring for Children: A Family Medicine Residency Outcomes Project
2017 Family Physicians Practicing High-Volume Obstetric Care Have Recently Dropped by One-Half Go to Family Physicians Practicing High-Volume Obstetric Care Have Recently Dropped by One-Half