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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 2020 The COVID-19 Tsunami: The Tide Goes Out Before It Comes In Go to The COVID-19 Tsunami: The Tide Goes Out Before It Comes In 2015 Smaller Practices Are Less Likely to Report PCMH Certification Go to Smaller Practices Are Less Likely to Report PCMH Certification 2014 Certification Status of Family Physicians in the Initial Cohort Entering Maintenance of Certification Go to Certification Status of Family Physicians in the Initial Cohort Entering Maintenance of Certification 2020 Rebuilding after COVID: Planning Systems of Care for the Future Go to Rebuilding after COVID: Planning Systems of Care for the Future
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 2020 The COVID-19 Tsunami: The Tide Goes Out Before It Comes In Go to The COVID-19 Tsunami: The Tide Goes Out Before It Comes In 2015 Smaller Practices Are Less Likely to Report PCMH Certification Go to Smaller Practices Are Less Likely to Report PCMH Certification 2014 Certification Status of Family Physicians in the Initial Cohort Entering Maintenance of Certification Go to Certification Status of Family Physicians in the Initial Cohort Entering Maintenance of Certification 2020 Rebuilding after COVID: Planning Systems of Care for the Future Go to Rebuilding after COVID: Planning Systems of Care for the Future
2020 The COVID-19 Tsunami: The Tide Goes Out Before It Comes In Go to The COVID-19 Tsunami: The Tide Goes Out Before It Comes In
2015 Smaller Practices Are Less Likely to Report PCMH Certification Go to Smaller Practices Are Less Likely to Report PCMH Certification
2014 Certification Status of Family Physicians in the Initial Cohort Entering Maintenance of Certification Go to Certification Status of Family Physicians in the Initial Cohort Entering Maintenance of Certification
2020 Rebuilding after COVID: Planning Systems of Care for the Future Go to Rebuilding after COVID: Planning Systems of Care for the Future
