About the Author | p. v |
Foreword | p. vii |
Physician Supply and Demand-A National View | p. 1 |
Changing Sentiments on the Policy Front | p. 4 |
Further Evidence of Shortages Emerges | p. 6 |
Effect of Shortages on Hospitals and Systems | p. 9 |
Geographic Maldistribution | p. 17 |
Varied Projections of Supply and Demand to 2020 | p. 24 |
Physician Supply and Demand-A Community Perspective | p. 29 |
Defining and Describing the Community to Be Served | p. 30 |
Determining Physician Supply in the Community | p. 49 |
Estimating the Current Number of Clinical FTEs | p. 52 |
Community Physician Need-By the Numbers | p. 61 |
Developing an Inventory of Community Physicians | p. 63 |
Three Approaches for Determining Physician Need | p. 66 |
Five Sets of Benchmark Physician-to-Population Ratios | p. 74 |
Summary of Process for Establishing Current Community Need | p. 95 |
Estimating Future Community Need | p. 97 |
How Many Physicians Make a Health System? | p. 103 |
Calculating Effective Service Population | p. 104 |
Determining Primary Care Need by Subarea | p. 108 |
Accounting for Hospitalists | p. 111 |
Determining Need for Subspecialists | p. 115 |
Using Activity Levels to Calculate Physician FTEs | p. 119 |
Projecting Future Physician Need and Supply | p. 121 |
Hospital-Physician Relationships: New Approaches to New Challenges | p. 125 |
Hospital-Physician Alignment Research | p. 126 |
Five Guidelines for Building and Maintaining Hospital-Physician Relationships | p. 130 |
Ten Strategies for Promoting Physician-Hospital Alignment | p. 132 |
Recruitment Strategies | p. 151 |
Situation-Specific Recruitment Strategies | p. 154 |
Looking Ahead | p. 164 |
Planning for an Uncertain Future | p. 167 |
Five Major Initiatives Affecting Hospitals and Physicians | p. 171 |
Effects of Health System Reform on Physicians | p. 173 |
Actions to Build and Maintain a Strong Medical Staff | p. 175 |
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