Publications
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READ about scientific publications, briefs, and reports emerging from the Center and its collaborators below.
AAMC-CFAS News highlights new Harvard Medical School, ABFM joint study: Potential $15 billion hit to primary care physicians from COVID-19
- Ron Shinkman
Submitted on: June, 2020
Medical practices across the United States have been hit hard by the COVID-19 outbreak.
The new study by researchers from Harvard Medical School and the American Board of Family Medicine attempts to put a price tag on that hit by running a microsimulation for projected 2020 revenues based on volume data for general practices, general internal medicine practices, general pediatric practices and family medicine practices.
As a result, they concluded that the average revenue loss per practice per physician will be $67,774, even taking into account revenue generated by telemedicine visits, which did not make up for the massive loss of patient volume during the spring.
Primary Care Spending in the United States, 2002-2016
- Sara Martin, MD, MSc
- Robert L. Phillips Jr., MD, MSPH
- Stephen Petterson, PhD
- Zachary Levin, MS
- Andrew W. Bazemore, MD, MPH
Submitted on: May, 2020
Insufficient investment in primary care is one reason that the US health care system continues to underperform relative to the health systems in other high-income countries. States and countries with greater access to primary care clinicians and more robust primary care services have better outcomes and lower costs. For this reason, Rhode Island and Oregon have mandated measurement and targeting of primary care expenditures, and other states are considering related legislation.
Advancing bibliometric assessment of research productivity: an analysis of US Departments of Family Medicine
- Andrew Bazemore
- Winston Liaw
- Bernard Ewigman
- Tanvir Chowdhury Turin
- Daniel McCorry
- Stephen Petterson
- Susan M. Dovey
Submitted on: May, 2020
The lifeblood, legitimacy and future of a scientific discipline depends on continual growth of its unique features and body of knowledge through research.2,3 Family physicians (a synonym we use in this paper for ‘general practitioners’) and other primary care providers depend on a vibrant research enterprise to find answers to the questions relevant to the unique set of health services provided to most patients, most of the time, in all stages of wellness and illness.
