PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Bodenheimer, Thomas
TI  - Why Are Family Physicians’ Panels Shrinking?
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2024.240101R0
DP  - 2024 May 01
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
PG  - 502--503
VI  - 37
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/37/3/502.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/37/3/502.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med2024 May 01; 37
AB  - The average panel for family physicians dropped from about 2400 to about 1800 patients from 2013 to 2022. Likely reasons for this decline: 1) fewer people seeking primary care, and 2) fewer people receiving their care through a long-term continuity relationship with a primary care clinician.