Defining the Resident Continuity Clinic Panel Along Patient Outcomes: a Health Equity Opportunity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Continuity clinics are a critical component of outpatient internal medicine training. Little is known about the population of patients cared for by residents and how these physicians perform.

Objectives

To compare resident and faculty performance on standard population health measures. To identify potential associations with differences in performance, specifically medical complexity, psychosocial vulnerability, and rates of patient loss.

Setting and participants

Large academic primary care clinic caring for 40,000 patients. One hundred ten internal medicine residents provide primary care for 9,000 of these patients; the remainder are cared for by faculty.

Study design

Descriptive analysis using review of the medical record and hospital administrativ

SUBMITTER: Amat M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8390708 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature