Inpatient Hand-Offs in Family Medicine Residency Programs: A CERA Study
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Miscommunication during patient hand-off in the inpatient setting can lead to serious medical errors. Previous studies indicate […]
More Comprehensive Care Among Family Physicians is Associated with Lower Costs and Fewer Hospitalizations
PURPOSE: Comprehensiveness is lauded as 1 of the 5 core virtues of primary care, but its relationship with outcomes is […]
ABFM to Simplify Maintenance of Certification (MOC) for Family Physicians and Make It More Meaningful: A Family Medicine Registry
The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) launches the start of a family medicine registry with a study called the […]
The Predictive Validity of the ABFM’s In-Training Examination
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Our objective was to examine the predictive validity of the American Board of Family Medicine’s (ABFM) In-Training […]
Family physician geriatricians do mostly geriatric care: is this a problem for our specialty?
In this issue, Peterson et al1 report that the majority of family physicians with Certificates of Added Qualifications (CAQs) in […]
A majority of family physicians use a hospitalist service when their patients require inpatient care
BACKGROUND: The hospitalist movement in the United States has risen in prominence over the past 2 decades with more physicians […]
Family physicians’ ability to perform population management is associated with adoption of other aspects of the patient-centered medical home
The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model is considered a promising approach to improving population health, but how elements of these […]
Smaller Practices Are Less Likely to Report PCMH Certification
Despite efforts to achieve broad transformation of primary care practices into patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs), certification rates have lagged in […]
Performance on the Maintenance of Certification for Family Physicians (MC-FP) examination: comparison of initial certfiers with experienced physicians
The perception that state-of-the-art clinical knowledge declines as a physician moves further away from formal training is prevalent.1 This perception […]
Only one third of family physicians can estimate their patient panel size
In addition to payments for services rendered to individual patients, primary care physicians will increasingly be paid for their ability […]
