Hypertension, coronary heart disease (CHD), and anxiety disorders all cause substantial
morbidity to patients and costs to the healthcare system. Associations between these diseases …

PURPOSE Comprehensiveness is lauded as 1 of the 5 core virtues of primary care, but its
relationship with outcomes is unclear. We measured associations between variations in …

PURPOSE Continuity of care is a defining characteristic of primary care associated with
lower costs and improved health equity and care quality. However, we lack provider-level …

As a result of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, virtually all in-person
outpatient visits were canceled in many parts of the country between March and May 2020. We …

Importance Narrowing of the scope of practice of US family physicians has been well
documented. Proposed reasons include changing practice patterns as physicians age, employer …

PURPOSE Solo and small practices are facing growing pressure to consolidate. Our objectives
were to determine (1) the percentage of family physicians in solo and small practices, …

PURPOSE Family physicians report some of the highest levels of burnout, but no published
work has considered whether burnout is correlated with the broad scope of care that family …

Physician burnout has become a critical issue in a rapidly changing health care environment
and is reported to be increasing. However, little is known about the prevalence of this …

Background: A recent regional study found lower burnout among primary care clinicians who
perceived that their clinic had greater capacity to meet patients' social needs. We aimed to …

PURPOSE More than a decade ago the American Academy of Family Physicians, American
Academy of Family Physicians Foundation, American Board of Family Medicine, Association …