Primary Care Needs Makeover: NEHI Report

Modern Healthcare
May 26, 2009

Primary-care practice is in need of a makeover to improve service and access and bolster physician satisfaction with their work, according to a new report by the New England Healthcare Institute.

The institute said that making changes to primary-care practice is crucial. As the U.S. population continues to age, the percentage of primary-care physicians has decreased from 50% of all doctors in 1950 to 30% in 2007, the institute said in its report, Remaking Primary Care: From Crisis to Opportunity....

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