Primary Care Physician Workforce and Medicare Beneficiaries' Health Outcomes
Open Access
- 25 May 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 305 (20), 2096-2104
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.665
Abstract
Strengthening the role of primary care is a key element in most proposals to improve the outcomes and efficiency of health care delivery in the United States.1,2 With the aging population and the waning interest in primary care by US medical school graduates, some have projected a large shortage of general internists and family physicians to care for a growing number of elderly patients.3Keywords
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