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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. ABFM Research Read all 2018 Rural Family Physicians in Patient Centered Medical Homes Have a Broader Scope of Practice Go to Rural Family Physicians in Patient Centered Medical Homes Have a Broader Scope of Practice 2022 Family Practices in Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative Showed No Changes in Medicare Costs or Utilization Go to Family Practices in Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative Showed No Changes in Medicare Costs or Utilization 2015 Family medicine graduate proximity to their site of training: policy options for improving the distribution of primary care access Go to Family medicine graduate proximity to their site of training: policy options for improving the distribution of primary care access 2020 Quality Changes Among Primary Care Clinicians Participating in the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative Go to Quality Changes Among Primary Care Clinicians Participating in the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative
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 Rural Family Physicians in Patient Centered Medical Homes Have a Broader Scope of Practice Go to Rural Family Physicians in Patient Centered Medical Homes Have a Broader Scope of Practice 2022 Family Practices in Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative Showed No Changes in Medicare Costs or Utilization Go to Family Practices in Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative Showed No Changes in Medicare Costs or Utilization 2015 Family medicine graduate proximity to their site of training: policy options for improving the distribution of primary care access Go to Family medicine graduate proximity to their site of training: policy options for improving the distribution of primary care access 2020 Quality Changes Among Primary Care Clinicians Participating in the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative Go to Quality Changes Among Primary Care Clinicians Participating in the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative
2018 Rural Family Physicians in Patient Centered Medical Homes Have a Broader Scope of Practice Go to Rural Family Physicians in Patient Centered Medical Homes Have a Broader Scope of Practice
2022 Family Practices in Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative Showed No Changes in Medicare Costs or Utilization Go to Family Practices in Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative Showed No Changes in Medicare Costs or Utilization
2015 Family medicine graduate proximity to their site of training: policy options for improving the distribution of primary care access Go to Family medicine graduate proximity to their site of training: policy options for improving the distribution of primary care access
2020 Quality Changes Among Primary Care Clinicians Participating in the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative Go to Quality Changes Among Primary Care Clinicians Participating in the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative