PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Jetty, Anuradha AU - Jabbarpour, Yalda AU - Petterson, Stephen AU - Eden, Aimee AU - Bazemore, Andrew TI - The Declining Presence of Family Physicians in Hospital-Based Care AID - 10.3122/jabfm.2019.06.190152 DP - 2019 Nov 01 TA - The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine PG - 771--772 VI - 32 IP - 6 4099 - http://www.jabfm.org/content/32/6/771.short 4100 - http://www.jabfm.org/content/32/6/771.full SO - J Am Board Fam Med2019 Nov 01; 32 AB - Despite training to provide care across the continuum of health delivery settings, the proportion of family physicians (FPs) reporting inpatient care has decreased by 26% between 2013 and 2017, leaving approximately 1 in 4 of FPs practicing hospital medicine in 2017. Policy makers, payers, and leaders in medical education should closely track the impact of these trends, given previous evidence associating better cost and utilization outcomes with broader scope of practice.