PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Bowman, Marjorie A.
AU  - Neale, Anne Victoria
TI  - Family Physicians are Complex Care Physicians and Quality of Care Advancement Experts
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2014.01.130283
DP  - 2014 Jan 01
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
PG  - 1--3
VI  - 27
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/27/1/1.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/27/1/1.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med2014 Jan 01; 27
AB  - This issue's policy brief provides a good summary point for this issue: family physicians are complex care physicians (in addition to their other many roles). Another article demonstrates that family physicians provide more care during a preventive gynecologic visit than obstetrician-gynecologists. Completing the American Board of Family Medicine Maintenance of Certification modules are associated with higher quality of care. A learning collaborative shows the fruits of their effort to implement patient-centered medical homes. A new risk calculator for colorectal cancer is presented. Pregnant patients are more likely to accept the flu vaccine when presented by a physician rather than a nurse or medical assistant. We can “maladapt” to new information, such as not using aspirin for primary cardiac disease prevention or the low risk of lactic acidosis with metformin.