Annals of Family Medicine 2:S33-S50 (2004)
© 2004 Annals of Family Medicine, Inc.
doi: 10.1370/afm.134
Task Force 1. Report of the Task Force on Patient Expectations, Core Values, Reintegration, and the New Model of Family Medicine
Task Force 1 Writing Group*,
Larry A. Green, MD1,
Robert Graham, MD2,
Bruce Bagley, MD3,
Charles M. Kilo, MD, MPH4,
Stephen J. Spann, MD5,
Stephen P. Bogdewic, PhD6 and
John Swanson, MPH7
1 Chair, Task Force 1, Co-Editor Task Force 1 Report, Denver, Colo, and Washington, DC
2 Co-Editor, Task Force 1, Bethesda, Md
3 Chair, Core Values Writing Group, Task Force 1, Leawood, Kan
4 Chair, Patient Expectations Writing Group, Task Force 1, Portland, Ore
5 Chair, New Model Writing Group, Task Force 1, Houston, Tex
6 Chair Essential Interfaces and Reintegration with Patients Writing Group; Vice Chair, Task Force 1, Indianapolis, Ind
7 Staff Executive, American Academy of Family Physicians, Leawood, Kan

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Figure 1. Number of office-based physicians per 1,000 people in the United States
Source: the Robert Graham Center, Washington, DC.
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Figure 2. Positions offered and filled with US seniors in March 19922003.
Source: American Academy of Family Physicians, Leawood, Kan.
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Figure 3. Simulation of whole county primary care health professions shortage areas (PCHPSAs) without family physicians (FPs) in 1999.
PC = primary care; FP = family physicians; HPSA = health professional shortage area. Source: The Robert Gaham Center: Policy Studies in Family Practice and Primary Care.
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Figure 4. The ecology of medical care revisited.
Note: All numbers refer to discrete individual persons and whether or not they received care in each setting in a typical month. From:
Green LA, Fryer GE Jr, Yawn BP, Lanier D, Dovey SM. The ecology of medical care revisited. N Engl J Med. 2001;344:20212025. Reprinted with permission from the Massachusetts Medical Society.
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Figure 5. Percentage of physician population compared with percentage of visits seen.
Source: American Medical Association Physician Masterfile and the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey.
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