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Home Research Research Library PURSUING PRACTICAL PROFESSIONALISM: FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION PURSUING PRACTICAL PROFESSIONALISM: FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION 2019 Author(s) Phillips, Robert L, Bazemore, Andrew W, and Newton, Warren P Topic(s) Family Medicine Certification, Role of Primary Care, and Achieving Health System Goals Keyword(s) Physician Experience (Burnout / Satisfaction), Practice Innovations, and Professionalism Volume Annals of Family Medicine Source Annals of Family Medicine Still early in a long game of delivery system transformation, the United States is already experiencing some of the negative consequences of pursuing quality and value measurement on professionalism in health care, specifically in the form of provider burnout. Other countries have struggled with similar endeavors, including the United Kingdom, which in 2004 launched an important experiment in value-base payment called the Quality and Outcomes Framework, or the QOF (“Qwaf”). The QOF increased primary care payments by up to 25% depending on how physicians did on more than 120 measures. ABFM Research Read all 2018 Burnout and Scope of Practice in New Family Physicians Go to Burnout and Scope of Practice in New Family Physicians 2020 The Evolving Family Medicine Team Go to The Evolving Family Medicine Team 2024 Small Independent Primary Care Practices Serving Socially Vulnerable Urban Populations Go to Small Independent Primary Care Practices Serving Socially Vulnerable Urban Populations 2019 Residency Program Characteristics and Individual Physician Practice Characteristics Associated With Family Physician Scope of Practice: Go to Residency Program Characteristics and Individual Physician Practice Characteristics Associated With Family Physician Scope of Practice:
Author(s) Phillips, Robert L, Bazemore, Andrew W, and Newton, Warren P Topic(s) Family Medicine Certification, Role of Primary Care, and Achieving Health System Goals Keyword(s) Physician Experience (Burnout / Satisfaction), Practice Innovations, and Professionalism Volume Annals of Family Medicine Source Annals of Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2018 Burnout and Scope of Practice in New Family Physicians Go to Burnout and Scope of Practice in New Family Physicians 2020 The Evolving Family Medicine Team Go to The Evolving Family Medicine Team 2024 Small Independent Primary Care Practices Serving Socially Vulnerable Urban Populations Go to Small Independent Primary Care Practices Serving Socially Vulnerable Urban Populations 2019 Residency Program Characteristics and Individual Physician Practice Characteristics Associated With Family Physician Scope of Practice: Go to Residency Program Characteristics and Individual Physician Practice Characteristics Associated With Family Physician Scope of Practice:
2018 Burnout and Scope of Practice in New Family Physicians Go to Burnout and Scope of Practice in New Family Physicians
2024 Small Independent Primary Care Practices Serving Socially Vulnerable Urban Populations Go to Small Independent Primary Care Practices Serving Socially Vulnerable Urban Populations
2019 Residency Program Characteristics and Individual Physician Practice Characteristics Associated With Family Physician Scope of Practice: Go to Residency Program Characteristics and Individual Physician Practice Characteristics Associated With Family Physician Scope of Practice: