Estimating a reasonable patient panel size for primary care physicians with team-based task delegation

Annals of Family Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 396-400

  Altschuler, Justin ^a   Margolius, David ^a   Bodenheimer, Thomas ^a   Grumbach, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allied health personnel; Delegation; Health care team; Models; Organizational; Panels; Physician's practice patterns; Practice based research; Primary care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MANAGEMENT; MANPOWER; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PATIENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROFESSIONAL DELEGATION; STATISTICS;

ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHRONIC DISEASE; DELEGATION, PROFESSIONAL; HUMANS; PATIENTS; PHYSICIANS, PRIMARY CARE; PRACTICE MANAGEMENT, MEDICAL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84866173287     PISSN: 15441709     EISSN: 15441717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1370/afm.1400     Document Type: Article

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