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Home Research Research Library Family Physicians’ Contributions to Rural Emergency Care and Urban Urgent Care Family Physicians’ Contributions to Rural Emergency Care and Urban Urgent Care 2019 Author(s) Peterson, Lars E, Puffer, James C, Nasim, Urooj, Petterson, Stephen M, and Newton, Warren P Topic(s) What Family Physicians Do Keyword(s) Initial Certification Questionnaire, JABFM Policy Brief, Rural, and Urgent / Emergent Care Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Using 2017 data, we demonstrate a sharp increase in the proportion of family physicians (FPs) working primarily in rural emergency departments and increasing numbers of FPs working in urgent care centers. Despite growth in emergency medicine–trained physicians, FPs are likely to continue to be the backbone of emergency care in rural America. ABFM Research Read all 2012 Proportion of family physicians providing maternity care continues to decline Go to Proportion of family physicians providing maternity care continues to decline 2018 Characteristics of Young Family Physician Hospitalists Go to Characteristics of Young Family Physician Hospitalists 2025 Documentation of Compounded GLP‐1 Receptor Agonists in a Large Primary Care Dataset Go to Documentation of Compounded GLP‐1 Receptor Agonists in a Large Primary Care Dataset 2013 Historic Growth Rates Vary Widely Across the Primary Care Physician Disciplines Go to Historic Growth Rates Vary Widely Across the Primary Care Physician Disciplines
Author(s) Peterson, Lars E, Puffer, James C, Nasim, Urooj, Petterson, Stephen M, and Newton, Warren P Topic(s) What Family Physicians Do Keyword(s) Initial Certification Questionnaire, JABFM Policy Brief, Rural, and Urgent / Emergent Care Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2012 Proportion of family physicians providing maternity care continues to decline Go to Proportion of family physicians providing maternity care continues to decline 2018 Characteristics of Young Family Physician Hospitalists Go to Characteristics of Young Family Physician Hospitalists 2025 Documentation of Compounded GLP‐1 Receptor Agonists in a Large Primary Care Dataset Go to Documentation of Compounded GLP‐1 Receptor Agonists in a Large Primary Care Dataset 2013 Historic Growth Rates Vary Widely Across the Primary Care Physician Disciplines Go to Historic Growth Rates Vary Widely Across the Primary Care Physician Disciplines
2012 Proportion of family physicians providing maternity care continues to decline Go to Proportion of family physicians providing maternity care continues to decline
2018 Characteristics of Young Family Physician Hospitalists Go to Characteristics of Young Family Physician Hospitalists
2025 Documentation of Compounded GLP‐1 Receptor Agonists in a Large Primary Care Dataset Go to Documentation of Compounded GLP‐1 Receptor Agonists in a Large Primary Care Dataset
2013 Historic Growth Rates Vary Widely Across the Primary Care Physician Disciplines Go to Historic Growth Rates Vary Widely Across the Primary Care Physician Disciplines
