TY - JOUR T1 - Family Physicians' Contributions to Rural Emergency Care and Urban Urgent Care JF - The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine JO - J Am Board Fam Med SP - 295 LP - 296 DO - 10.3122/jabfm.2019.03.180338 VL - 32 IS - 3 AU - Lars E. Peterson AU - James C. Puffer AU - Urooj Nasim AU - Stephen Petterson AU - Warren P. Newton Y1 - 2019/05/01 UR - http://www.jabfm.org/content/32/3/295.abstract N2 - Using 2017 data, we demonstrate a sharp increase in the proportion of family physicians (FPs) working primarily in rural emergency departments and increasing numbers of FPs working in urgent care centers. Despite growth in emergency medicine–trained physicians, FPs are likely to continue to be the backbone of emergency care in rural America. ER -