Introduction: Family physicians (FPs) are specialty trained and certified and provide most
primary care (PC) services in the United States. General practitioners (GPs), a separate …

PURPOSE General practitioners (GPs) are part of the US physician workforce, but little is
known about who they are, what they do, and how they differ from family physicians (FPs) …

T wo issues with a long history of discussion in our discipline—the appropriate role of nurse
practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) in family practices, and the appropriate …

Background Many physicians listed as primary care in databases such as the American
Medical Association (AMA) Masterfile do not provide traditional ambulatory primary care …

Background There are no consistent data on US primary care clinicians and primary care
practices owing to the lack of standard methods to identify them, hampering efforts in primary …

Introduction Physicians are vital to health-care delivery, but assessing their impact on care
can be challenging given limited data. Historically, health services researchers have …

Purpose: Previous research indicated that rural family physicians were more likely to pass
the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) Maintenance of Certification for Family …

Introduction: Comprehensiveness is a defining principle of primary care and Family
Medicine but is declining in some settings. This study explores the relationship between …

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To identify factors that are associated with the scope of practice of
FPs and GPs who have office-based practices. DESIGN Secondary univariable and …

Purpose Scope of practice of family physicians (FPs) has been decreasing overall. Our
objective was to determine if the distribution of declining scope occurs across urban and …