Medscape March 12, 2020
Anyone who thinks board-certified family physicians (FPs) and self-identified general practitioners (GPs) can be lumped into one broad category should think again, according to a new study.
“Lumping GPs and FPs together risks misclassification bias and threatens validity of [research] findings,” write William R. Phillips, MD, MPH, with the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, and colleagues. Their study, published online March 9 in the Annals of Family Medicine, was supported in part by the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) Foundation.
The report is interesting because it answers long-standing questions: “Why are GPs included as FPs, and who are they and what do they do?” said Jack Westfall, MD, MPH, director of the Robert...
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