Comparing Comprehensiveness in Primary Care Specialties and Their Effects on Healthcare Costs and Hospitalizations in Medicare Beneficiaries

J Gen Intern Med. 2019 Dec;34(12):2708-2710. doi: 10.1007/s11606-019-05338-3. Epub 2019 Sep 13.

Authors

Tracey L Henry¹, Stephen Petterson², Russell S Phillips³, Robert L Phillips Jr⁴, Andrew Bazemore²

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Medicine and Geriatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA. tlhenry@emory.edu.
² Robert Graham Center Policy Studies in Family Medicine & Primary Care, Washington, DC, USA.
³ Center for Primary Care, Global Health and Social Medicine Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ The American Board of Family Medicine, Washington DC, USA.

No abstract available

Publication types

Comparative Study

MeSH terms

Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Family Practice / economics*
Family Practice / statistics & numerical data
Female
Health Care Costs / statistics & numerical data*
Hospitalization / economics
Hospitalization / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Internal Medicine / economics*
Internal Medicine / statistics & numerical data
Male
Medicare / statistics & numerical data
United States