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Arlan L. Rosenbloom, MD; James P. Ongley

Am J Dis Child. 1974;128(4):504-507.

Abstract
Private practice data for 1972 were analyzed for groups aged 0 to 12 and 13 to 21 years old by type of practice, geographic region, place of contact, and principal diagnoses. Pediatricians, 6% of all private practicing physicians, account for 8% of the 1.6 billion contacts for all ages, 45% of the 0- to 12-year-old contacts, and only 5.5% of the 13- to 21-year-old activity. Pediatricians are unique among primary care physicians in reporting no adolescent obstetrical or venereal disease care. Sixty-one percent of the adolescent contacts are with general physicians (MD or DO) or obstetricians/gynecologists, representing 45% of the practicing population but only 10% of occupied residency posts in 1973.

Author Affiliations
From the Division of Genetics, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville.

Footnotes
Received for publication Jan 21, 1974; accepted April 2.

Read in part before the annual meeting of the Florida Pediatric Society, Bermuda, Nov 8, 1973; and before the 14th annual meeting of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association, Washington, DC, April 30, 1974.

Reprint requests to the Department of Pediatrics, Box 739, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL 32610 (Dr. Rosenbloom).

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