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Home Research Research Library Self-Reported Panel Size Among Family Physicians Declined by Over 25% Over a Decade (2013-2022) Self-Reported Panel Size Among Family Physicians Declined by Over 25% Over a Decade (2013-2022) 2024 Author(s) Bazemore, Andrew W, Morgan, Zachary J, and Grumbach, Kevin Topic(s) Role of Primary Care, and Achieving Health System Goals Keyword(s) Quality Of Care, and Teams Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Underinvestment in primary care and erosion of the primary care physician workforce are resulting in patients across the US experiencing growing difficulty in obtaining access to primary care. Compounding this access problem, we find that the average patient panel size among US family physicians may have decreased by 25% over the past decade (2013 to 2022). Reversing the decline in access to primary care in the face of decreasing panel sizes requires both better supporting family physicians to manage larger panels, such as by expanding primary care teams, and substantially increasing the supply of family physicians. ABFM Research Read all 2020 Trends in the Gender Ratio of Authorship at the Robert Graham Center Go to Trends in the Gender Ratio of Authorship at the Robert Graham Center 2013 Toward Defining and Measuring Social Accountability in Graduate Medical Education: A Stakeholder Study Go to Toward Defining and Measuring Social Accountability in Graduate Medical Education: A Stakeholder Study 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 2015 Do family physicians electronic health records support meaningful use? Go to Do family physicians electronic health records support meaningful use?
Author(s) Bazemore, Andrew W, Morgan, Zachary J, and Grumbach, Kevin Topic(s) Role of Primary Care, and Achieving Health System Goals Keyword(s) Quality Of Care, and Teams Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2020 Trends in the Gender Ratio of Authorship at the Robert Graham Center Go to Trends in the Gender Ratio of Authorship at the Robert Graham Center 2013 Toward Defining and Measuring Social Accountability in Graduate Medical Education: A Stakeholder Study Go to Toward Defining and Measuring Social Accountability in Graduate Medical Education: A Stakeholder Study 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 2015 Do family physicians electronic health records support meaningful use? Go to Do family physicians electronic health records support meaningful use?
2020 Trends in the Gender Ratio of Authorship at the Robert Graham Center Go to Trends in the Gender Ratio of Authorship at the Robert Graham Center
2013 Toward Defining and Measuring Social Accountability in Graduate Medical Education: A Stakeholder Study Go to Toward Defining and Measuring Social Accountability in Graduate Medical Education: A Stakeholder Study
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
2015 Do family physicians electronic health records support meaningful use? Go to Do family physicians electronic health records support meaningful use?