PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jetty, Anuradha
AU  - Petterson, Stephen
AU  - Jabbarpour, Yalda
TI  - Proportion of Family Physicians in Solo and Small Practices is on the Decline
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2021.02.200457
DP  - 2021 Mar 01
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
PG  - 266--267
VI  - 34
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/34/2/266.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/34/2/266.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med2021 Mar 01; 34
AB  - Although solo and small practices are a vital part of primary care, the proportion of family physicians reporting working in practices with 5 or fewer providers declined from 15% to 11% for solo and 37% to 34% for small (2 to 5 providers) practices from 2014 to 2018. These decreasing trends are concerning, mainly when a low proportion of family physicians have solo practices in rural locations given the access to care challenges in these underserved populations.