Robert L. Phillips

Rural Family Medicine–General Surgery Dyads and Health Outcomes

Importance Despite a 43% higher age-adjusted mortality rate among rural working-age adults and a 29.1% decline in general surgeon supply between 2001 and 2019, the public health impact of the family medicine–general surgery (FM-GS) specialty dyad remains understudied. Objective T...

The Triple Burden of Administrative Tasks Among US Family Medicine Physicians—A Cross-sectional Study

Abstract Background Although interoperability advances and policy initiatives have expanded EHR functionality and were intended to streamline clinical workflows, many administrative tasks remain burdensome. Objective To describe the prevalence and co-occurrence of three administr...