Caring for children: re-examining the family physician's role.
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Leigh Ann Backer is the managing editor of Family Practice Management. Conflicts of interest: none reported. T he share of children’s health care provided by family physicians and general practitioners decreased by about 33 percent between 1992 and 2002, from one in four children’s visits to one in six. This finding was at the heart of a report by the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care presented in June to the AAFP Task Force on the Care of Children. The report, which was based on a review of the literature as well as some new analysis of existing data, was commissioned by the task force to guide recommendations the group will make to the AAFP Board of Directors later this summer. Robert L. Phillips, Jr., MD, MSPH, director of the Graham Center, says that primary data collection is needed to determine the root causes of the problem, but the center’s report suggests several potential contributing factors. “The biggest influence is probably that the number of pediatricians has grown so much, so fast,” Phillips says. “The pediatricians’ work force has more than doubled over the last 25 years, and the birth rate is down 11 percent during the same period. The FP/GP work force has only grown about 60 percent during that time.” The decline in the percentage of children’s visits provided by family physicians and general practitioners corresponds with significant growth in the number of visits provided by general pediatricians and small increases in care provided by Leigh Ann Backer
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Family practice management
دوره 12 7 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005