Rural & Underserved Health Research Center Publications
Abstract
Overview
- Rural family physicians often have a broader scope of practice, defined as the range of clinical and procedural services that they provide, than urban family physicians. The Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model of care is intended to provide accessible and comprehensive care, but little is known about how practicing in a PCMH is associated with rural family physicians’ scope of practice.
- Using data from 18,846 family physicians nationally, we found that rural family physicians working in PCMH practices generally provide a wider scope of clinical and procedural services than those not working in PCMH practices.
Publication Date
2-28-2018
Funding Information
This project was supported by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under cooperative agreement # U1CRH30041.
Repository Citation
Peterson, Lars E. and Fang, Bo, "Rural Family Physicians in Patient Centered Medical Homes Have a Broader Scope of Practice" (2018). Rural & Underserved Health Research Center Publications. 6.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/ruhrc_reports/6
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Notes/Citation Information
© 2018 Rural & Underserved Health Research Center, University of Kentucky.
The information, conclusions and opinions expressed in this document are those of the authors and no endorsement by FORHP, HRSA, HHS, or the University of Kentucky is intended or should be inferred.