Association of number of primary care physicians with preventable hospitalizations and premature deaths

CONCLUSION: Higher number of PCPs in a county was associated with lower hospitalizations for preventable causes and lower premature deaths. Increasing PCPs may be important metric to improve overall health in a community.PMID:34928197 | DOI:10.1080/00325481.2021.2021038

Source: Postgraduate Medicine - December 20, 2021 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Satya Preetham Gunta Ain Ul-Ejaz Abigail May Murphy Kaylea May Gunn Ambika Bhatnagar Vanika Angraal Angel Lopez-Candales Suveen Angraal Source Type: research