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Practice and Community-Level Variations in Primary Care Panel Size [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

There were variations by PCP specialty, including Internal Medicine (1311), Obgyn (1586), Family Medicine (1608), and Pediatrics (1747). PCPs within health systems had significantly larger panels compared to those outside of health systems (mean 1550 vs. 1468, p<0.01).

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Towards a Fundamental Unit of Continuity of Care [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Clinician types included family medicine (FM), internal medicine (IM), pediatric medicine (PED), general practice (GP), obstetrics/gynecology (OB), nurse practitioner (NP), and physician assistant (PA). Patients were attributed to the PCPs with whom they had the most visits in 2018.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. One of them is Karen Steinhauser’s Annals of Internal Medicine paper on, In Search of a Good Death. Rehabbed to Death. Ruth: Aw, thanks. My question is, why this study, and why now?