425. Physician productivity in the delivery of ambulatory care: Some findings from a survey of pediatricians, Medical Care

Family Physicians' Utilization of a Brief Smoking Cessation Program Following Reinforcement Contact after Training: A Randomized Trial

“…Most doctors (88%) in our study reported continuing use of the program at 6 months (93% of the Contact group and 84% of the Noncontact group) and most intended to use the program in the future (80%). Our results are higher than those reported in a metaanalysis of physician surveys that found utilization was 50 to 60% for smoking cessation advice [28] and another study that reported 59% of family physicians were giving patients smoking cessation advice at 6 months [27].…”

The Pediatrician Workforce: Current Status and Future Prospects

“…One domain that bedevils child health workforcesupply forecasting is workforce productivity, how it is defined and measured. 12,[129][130][131][132] For the moment, we will restrict productivity to its common measures that are more aptly named medical services productivity (Fig 1, box 14). Examples include visits or hours of clinical activity per week per physician fulltime equivalent (FTE).…”