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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. Read More ABFM Research Read all 2024 Training in Gender Affirming Care is Medically Necessary Go to Training in Gender Affirming Care is Medically Necessary 2019 Endoscopic Services in the United States: By Whom, for What, and Why? Go to Endoscopic Services in the United States: By Whom, for What, and Why? 2025 Impact of Community Health Center Losses on County-Level Mortality: A Natural Experiment in the United States, 2011–2019 Go to Impact of Community Health Center Losses on County-Level Mortality: A Natural Experiment in the United States, 2011–2019 2016 Intended vs Reported Scope of Practice–Reply Go to Intended vs Reported Scope of Practice–Reply
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 2024 Training in Gender Affirming Care is Medically Necessary Go to Training in Gender Affirming Care is Medically Necessary 2019 Endoscopic Services in the United States: By Whom, for What, and Why? Go to Endoscopic Services in the United States: By Whom, for What, and Why? 2025 Impact of Community Health Center Losses on County-Level Mortality: A Natural Experiment in the United States, 2011–2019 Go to Impact of Community Health Center Losses on County-Level Mortality: A Natural Experiment in the United States, 2011–2019 2016 Intended vs Reported Scope of Practice–Reply Go to Intended vs Reported Scope of Practice–Reply
2024 Training in Gender Affirming Care is Medically Necessary Go to Training in Gender Affirming Care is Medically Necessary
2019 Endoscopic Services in the United States: By Whom, for What, and Why? Go to Endoscopic Services in the United States: By Whom, for What, and Why?
2025 Impact of Community Health Center Losses on County-Level Mortality: A Natural Experiment in the United States, 2011–2019 Go to Impact of Community Health Center Losses on County-Level Mortality: A Natural Experiment in the United States, 2011–2019
