PURPOSE Primary care is the foundation of the health care workforce and the only part that
extends life and improves health equity. Previous research on the geographic and specialty …

Background The enumeration of the primary care workforce relies on potentially inaccurate
specialty designations sourced from licensure registries and clinician surveys. Objective To …

Importance Maintaining a healthy physician workforce includes the routine use of primary
care physician (PCP) services; however, physicians may face barriers to attaining formal …

METHODS To identify active providers, we linked providers listed in the 2014 National Plan
and Provider Enumeration System to Medicare claims. Using practice location and specialty …

Purpose Facing rising numbers of insured with implementation of the Affordable Care Act,
policy makers are interested in building teams of providers that can accommodate a growing …

Policy makers need accurate and timely data on the current and projected supply of health
care workers as they make decisions that affect the delivery of health care. In this brief, we …

Background: Given the changing landscape of primary care, there may be fewer primary
care physicians available to provide a broad range of services to patients of all age groups …

Background: Five million Canadians lack a family doctor or primary care team. Our goal was
to examine trends over time in family physician workforce and service provision in Ontario …

Background Many physicians listed as primary care in databases such as the American
Medical Association (AMA) Masterfile do not provide traditional ambulatory primary care …

PURPOSE We sought to project the number of primary care physicians required to meet US
health care utilization needs through 2025 after passage of the Affordable Care Act …