TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Chapter 4. The Interface between Primary Care and Hospital Medicine
A1  - Higgins, Stacy
A2  - McKean, Sylvia C.
A2  - Ross, John J.
A2  - Dressler, Daniel D.
A2  - Brotman, Daniel J.
A2  - Ginsberg, Jeffrey S.
Y1  - 2012
N1  - 
T2  - Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine
AB  - It  is  estimated  that  the  United  States  currently  has  over  222,000  practicing  active  generalists  that  are  either  office  or  hospital  based.  This  includes  trained  internists,  family  physicians,  and  pediatricians  who  provide  primary  care  to  the  great  majority  of  the  U.S.  population.  Physicians  in  family  medicine,  general  internal  medicine,  and  general  pediatrics  are  the  foundation  of  U.S.  health  care,  providing  52%  of  all  ambulatory  care  visits,  much  of  the  inpatient  care,  80%  of  visits  for  hypertension,  70%  of  visits  for  chronic  obstructive  pulmonary  disease  (COPD)  and  diabetes.  Yet  it  is  expected  that  there  will  be  a  significant  shortage  of  primary  care  physicians  over  the  next  20  years  because  the  U.S.  population  is  expected  to  increase  by  18%  between  2005  and  2025,  and  the  population  over  age  65  (which  utilizes  the  health  care  system  twice  as  often  as  younger  adults)  will  increase  by  73%.  
SN  - 
PB  - The McGraw-Hill Companies
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/18
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=56191243
ER  -