Phoenix Newsletter - October 2025 President’s Message: Enduring Commitments in a Time of Change Read President’s Message: Enduring Commitments in a Time of Change
Home Research Research Library Effectiveness over efficiency: underestimating the primary care physician shortage Effectiveness over efficiency: underestimating the primary care physician shortage 2014 Author(s) Phillips, Robert L, Bazemore, Andrew W, and Peterson, Lars E Topic(s) Role of Primary Care Keyword(s) Practice Innovations, and Teams Volume Medical Care Source Medical Care Interest in improving health care outcomes requires increasing the effectiveness of primary care. Focus on effectiveness is leading many innovative health systems to shrink primary care patient panels to strengthen relationships, and to enhance primary care teams to increase comprehensiveness. Such strategies would make primary care shortages worse than predicted, and are compounded by substantial declines in clinicians of all types choosing primary care careers. Severe primary care shortages beg for efficiency, but emphasizing efficiency at the expense of effectiveness threatens achieving the Triple Aim for health care. We cannot avoid the hard work of repairing our clinician training pipeline for primary care. ABFM Research Read all 2014 Spending patterns in region of residency training and subsequent expenditures for care provided by practicing physicians for Medicare beneficiaries Go to Spending patterns in region of residency training and subsequent expenditures for care provided by practicing physicians for Medicare beneficiaries 2011 Variation over time in preventable hospitalization rates across counties Go to Variation over time in preventable hospitalization rates across counties 2023 The Impact of Interpersonal Continuity of Primary Care on Health Care Costs and Use: A Critical Review Go to The Impact of Interpersonal Continuity of Primary Care on Health Care Costs and Use: A Critical Review 2011 Rewarding family medicine while penalizing comprehensiveness? Primary care payment incentives and health reform: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) Go to Rewarding family medicine while penalizing comprehensiveness? Primary care payment incentives and health reform: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)
Author(s) Phillips, Robert L, Bazemore, Andrew W, and Peterson, Lars E Topic(s) Role of Primary Care Keyword(s) Practice Innovations, and Teams Volume Medical Care Source Medical Care
ABFM Research Read all 2014 Spending patterns in region of residency training and subsequent expenditures for care provided by practicing physicians for Medicare beneficiaries Go to Spending patterns in region of residency training and subsequent expenditures for care provided by practicing physicians for Medicare beneficiaries 2011 Variation over time in preventable hospitalization rates across counties Go to Variation over time in preventable hospitalization rates across counties 2023 The Impact of Interpersonal Continuity of Primary Care on Health Care Costs and Use: A Critical Review Go to The Impact of Interpersonal Continuity of Primary Care on Health Care Costs and Use: A Critical Review 2011 Rewarding family medicine while penalizing comprehensiveness? Primary care payment incentives and health reform: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) Go to Rewarding family medicine while penalizing comprehensiveness? Primary care payment incentives and health reform: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)
2014 Spending patterns in region of residency training and subsequent expenditures for care provided by practicing physicians for Medicare beneficiaries Go to Spending patterns in region of residency training and subsequent expenditures for care provided by practicing physicians for Medicare beneficiaries
2011 Variation over time in preventable hospitalization rates across counties Go to Variation over time in preventable hospitalization rates across counties
2023 The Impact of Interpersonal Continuity of Primary Care on Health Care Costs and Use: A Critical Review Go to The Impact of Interpersonal Continuity of Primary Care on Health Care Costs and Use: A Critical Review
2011 Rewarding family medicine while penalizing comprehensiveness? Primary care payment incentives and health reform: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) Go to Rewarding family medicine while penalizing comprehensiveness? Primary care payment incentives and health reform: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)
