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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 7. Average Hospital Round Visits per Week

Line graph
The vertical axis title is Visits per Week and it is numbered from 5 to 45.
The horizontal axis is Years from 1985 to 2000.
The lines are color coded.
There is a legend indicating the colors as follows:
The blue line is G/F Practice.
The red line is Pediatrics.
The green line is Internal Medicine.
The orange line is OBGYN.
The purple line is Surgery.

The following table has approximate values for points on the line graph:

YEAR 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
blue line 22 17 16 16 19 17 17 13 15 13 12 10 10 10 10
red line 21 21 22 22 26 22 20 20 20 22 20 16 19 15  
green line 36 37 37 36 40 36 35 32 32 31 29 24 25 22 21
orange line 24 24 20 23 20 20 19 15 19 14 12 12 12 11 14
purple line 32 27 27 26 26 25 24 20 20 19 17 15 16 12 14

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