PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Bazemore, Andrew
AU  - Morgan, Zachary J.
AU  - Grumbach, Kevin
TI  - Self-Reported Panel Size Among Family Physicians Declined by Over 25% Over a Decade (2013-2022)
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2023.230421R1
DP  - 2024 May 01
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
PG  - 504--505
VI  - 37
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/37/3/504.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/37/3/504.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med2024 May 01; 37
AB  - Underinvestment in primary care and erosion of the primary care physician workforce are resulting in patients across the US experiencing growing difficulty in obtaining access to primary care. Compounding this access problem, we find that the average patient panel size among US family physicians may have decreased by 25% over the past decade (2013 to 2022). Reversing the decline in access to primary care in the face of decreasing panel sizes requires both better supporting family physicians to manage larger panels, such as by expanding primary care teams, and substantially increasing the supply of family physicians.