Declining Endoscopic Care by Family Physicians in Both Rural and Urban Areas

Date
07/2019
Journal
Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
Description

This paper explores the decline in the percentage of family physicians providing endoscopic services overall and in urban and rural areas. This has implications on the availability of colonoscopies, endoscopies, and flexible sigmoidoscopies in areas that lack specialists who perform such services.

Center
Rural and Underserved Health Research Center
Authors
Lars Peterson, Urooj Nasim, Vashisht Madabhushi