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Physician Supply and Demand: Projections to 2020

 

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Background
Physician Supply Model
Current Physician Workforce
New Entrants and Choice of Medical Specialty
Separations from the Physician Workforce
Trends in Physician Productivity
Physician Supply Projections
Physician Requirements Model
Growth and Aging of the Population
Medical Insurance Trends
Economic Factors
Other Potential Determinants of Demand for Physicians
Physician Requirements Projections
Assessing the Adequacy of Current and Future Supply
Summary

References

 

Exhibit 10. Total Support Staff per FTE Physician

Line graph
The vertical axis title is Number of Support Staff and it is numbered from 1 to 6.
The horizontal axis is Years from 1995 to 2002.

The lines are color coded.
There is a legend indicating the colors as follows:
The blue line is Multispecialty, not hospital owned.
The red line is Multispecialty, all practices.
The green line is Multispecialty, hospital owned.
The yellow line is Family practice, single specialty (NHO)

The following table indicates data points on the graph:

YEAR 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
blue line no data no data no data 5 between 5
and 6
between 5
and 6
between 5
and 6
between 5
and 6
red line between 4
and 5
between 4
and 5
between 4
and 5
between 4
and 5
no data 5 5 5
yellow line no data between 4
and 5
no data 5 no data between 4
and 5
between 4
and 5
5
green line no data no data no data between 3
and 4
no data between 4
and 5
between 4
and 5
between 4
and 5

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