Toward the measurement of primary care.
The renaissance of rhetoric about primary care--"continuous, coordinated, comprehensive, family-centered"--has paralleled the growth of entrants into formal training programs. The extent to which primary care is actually practiced this way has not been examined, nor have the routes to preparing for it. A preliminary set of measurements is suggested.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003191:Comprehensive Health Care; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008875:Middle Aged; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014589:Utah