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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. Read More ABFM Research Read all 2018 Rapid Sense Making: A Feasible, Efficient Approach for Analyzing Large Data Sets of Open-Ended Comments Go to Rapid Sense Making: A Feasible, Efficient Approach for Analyzing Large Data Sets of Open-Ended Comments 2020 How Should Board Certification Evolve? Go to How Should Board Certification Evolve? 2017 Preserving Primary Care Robustness Despite Increasing Health System Integration Go to Preserving Primary Care Robustness Despite Increasing Health System Integration 2022 Strengthening Primary Care to Improve Health Outcomes in the US Go to Strengthening Primary Care to Improve Health Outcomes in the US
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 2018 Rapid Sense Making: A Feasible, Efficient Approach for Analyzing Large Data Sets of Open-Ended Comments Go to Rapid Sense Making: A Feasible, Efficient Approach for Analyzing Large Data Sets of Open-Ended Comments 2020 How Should Board Certification Evolve? Go to How Should Board Certification Evolve? 2017 Preserving Primary Care Robustness Despite Increasing Health System Integration Go to Preserving Primary Care Robustness Despite Increasing Health System Integration 2022 Strengthening Primary Care to Improve Health Outcomes in the US Go to Strengthening Primary Care to Improve Health Outcomes in the US
2018 Rapid Sense Making: A Feasible, Efficient Approach for Analyzing Large Data Sets of Open-Ended Comments Go to Rapid Sense Making: A Feasible, Efficient Approach for Analyzing Large Data Sets of Open-Ended Comments
2017 Preserving Primary Care Robustness Despite Increasing Health System Integration Go to Preserving Primary Care Robustness Despite Increasing Health System Integration
2022 Strengthening Primary Care to Improve Health Outcomes in the US Go to Strengthening Primary Care to Improve Health Outcomes in the US
