One in Fifteen Family Physicians Principally provide Emergency or Urgent Care.

2014

Authors Petterson, Stephen M, Peterson, Lars E, Phillips, Robert L, Moore, M, Finnegan, Sean C, Coffman, Megan, Bazemore, Andrew W
Topics Role of Primary Care, What Family Physicians Do
Volume 27(4):447-448
Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

A small but nontrivial proportion of US family physicians devote most of their time providing emergency or urgent care. With considerable attention focused on expanding access to primary care, it is important to account for providers principally working outside of traditional primary care.