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 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.
The COVID-19 Tsunami: The Tide Goes Out Before It Comes In
- Robert L. Phillips Jr., MD, MSPH
- Andrew W. Bazemore, MD, MPH
- Aaron Baum
Submitted on: April, 2020
Most people in the US have withdrawn from their daily routines unless their jobs are essential. Quiet streets, shuttered stores, silent schools. More than 400,000 live with the knowledge that they have the disease, but the slowness of our testing means that multiples of that number are likely to be infected. In pockets around the country, hospitals feel the earliest surges from those most vulnerable to COVID-19, but countrywide, the tsunami is still out at sea.
The devastating effects of a tsunami are usually preceded by an abnormally fast and long low tide, as water is actually pulled away from shore toward the epicenter of the underwater earthquake. Most of the US currently sits in that temporary equipoise. Most Americans who receive any health care in a given year do so in a primary care setting, where they generally have the relationships that they count on most when they are sick—or scared that they might be.
