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A Short History of Primary Care Practice-based Research Networks: From Concept to Essential Research Laboratories

Larry A. Green and John Hickner
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine January 2006, 19 (1) 1-10; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.19.1.1
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    ASPN Performance Characteristics, 1983 to 1990 (as of September 1 each year)

    19831984198519861987198819891990
    Number of practices3846475264717675
    Percent rural63%63%65%60%62%59%59%53%
    Number of clinicians78138145183190216213314
        Mean age3837403938393839
        Number of doctors66117125158167188182264
        Number of residents0000001594
    Availability of practices’ doctors to respond to patients
        Least63% (Sunday afternoon)69% (Sunday afternoon)65% (Sat evening)65% (Sat eve.)68% (Sunday afternoon)70% (Sun evening)70% (Sunday afternoon)72% (Sunday afternoon)
        Most98% (Monday afternoon)96% (Tuesday afternoon)94% (Tuesday afternoon)98% (Tuesday afternoon)95% (Tuesday morning)97% (Tuesday morning)96% (Tuesday morning)98% (Friday morning)
        Evenings70% to 75%70% to 78%64% to 72%65% to 76%69% to 76%70% to 82%70% to 85%72% to 86%
    Coverage by practice 52 weeks a year69%70%70%78%77%76%76%80%
    Reporting rate89%86% to 93%93% to 95%95% to 98%89% to 97%94%92%
    Age/sex reports;*
        Number submitted by year’s end3031413854614667
        Number completely enumerated711213048494463
        Total patients114,889106,402200,686166,509222,430266,198297,923309,925
        Percent female56%55%57%57%56%56%56%56%
    Estimated active population145,529157,882230,056227,857263,620309,838327,013346,933
    Average encounters per practice each week160167156177191195184195
    • * Age/sex registers are reported for the previous 2-year period (e.g., 1982 to 83 age/sex registers are collected in 1984).

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