title: Patterns of visits to physicians' offices, 1980 to 2003.
abstract: In the past quarter century, the number of office visits to physicians in the United States increased from 581 million per year to 838 million per year, with slightly more than one half of total visits since 1980 being made to primary care physicians. Most visits to primary care physicians were made to family physicians (FPs) and general practitioners (GPs) until the mid 1990s, when visits to general internists and general pediatricians exceeded visits to FPs and GPs.
mesh_terms: D005194:Family Practice / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D009819:Office Visits / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States