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.
Defining Comprehensiveness in Primary Care: A Scoping Review
Submitted on: January, 2024
This scoping review unified the interrelatedness of comprehensiveness’s main aspects – whole-person care, range of services, and referral to specialty care – framing a working, evidence-based definition: managing most medical care needs and temporarily complementing care with special integrated services in the context of patient’s values, preferences, and beliefs.
New Podcast! Achieving Whole Health: Faisel & Friends Featuring Dr. Andrew Bazemore & Dr. Alex Krist
Submitted on: December, 2023
Primary care saves lives. Here’s why it’s failing America.
- Robert L. Phillips Jr., MD, MSPH
- Dr. Bob Phillips
Submitted on: October, 2023
When it comes to saving American lives, don’t look to cardiologists, oncologists or even the made-for-TV heroes in the ER. It’s primary-care providers who offer the best hope of reversing the devastating decline in U.S. life expectancy.
That’s the conclusion reached by experts who study America’s fractured health-care system.
A 2019 study based on U.S. population data and published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that every 10 additional primary-care physicians per 100,000 people was associated with a 51.5-day increase in life expectancy.
