Publications
The Center exists in part to create original evidence and information that support and advance conversations around professionalism, value, and other health care issues.
READ about scientific publications, briefs, and reports emerging from the Center and its collaborators below.
Primary Care’s Effects on Costs in the US Veterans Health Administration, 2016-2019: And Observational Cohort Study
Submitted on: October, 2021
Primary Care Field Faces High Burnout And Renewed Financial Struggles, As COVID Relief Dries Up | WBUR News
Submitted on: September, 2021
Comprehensiveness—the Need to Resurrect a Sagging Pillar of Primary Care
- Tracey L. Henry MD, MPH, MS
- Eugene C. Rich MD
- Andrew W. Bazemore, MD, MPH
Submitted on: August, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted both the importance of primary care and the fragility of its current infrastructure in the United States (US). Within its first 2 months, stark reminders of racial injustice, unaddressed health disparities, and grossly inequitable access to healthcare further underscored the current lack and future importance of universal access to high-performing primary care. At the start of the pandemic, fewer than 1 in 5 Americans could identify a personal usual source of healthcare. In this time of uncertainty, many patients went without timely care due to a myriad of difficulties. Perhaps chief among these was the lack of an accessible, trusted personal clinician capable of and committed to delivering personalized advice and comprehensive care at a time of unprecedented medical and public health uncertainty. In response to this crisis, changes in actual and virtual visit accessibility to primary care were further complicated by the limited office hours or practice closures imposed by crises in provider organizational finances.
