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

2014

AUTHOR(S)
Petterson, Stephen M
Peterson, Lars E
Phillips, Robert L
Moore, M
Finnegan, Sean C
Coffman, Megan
Bazemore, Andrew W
TOPIC(S)
Role of Primary Care
What Family Physicians Do
KEYWORD(S)
Urgent / Emergent Care
VOLUME
27(4):447-448

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.

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