Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In Ontario, multiple organizations operate under a ‘boutique’ medicine model where patients pay a block or annual fee to access primary care services. Little is known about the characteristics of physicians and patients participating in boutique clinic practice models.

Clinic 130

Clinic Referral Primary Care Physician Primary Care 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 16, 2025

MONDAY, June 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — From 2016 to 2023, there was an increase in the mean age of mothers at first birth and at higher-order births, according to the June 13 National Vital Statistics Reports , a publication from the National Center for Health Statistics. Brown, Ph.D., Brown, Ph.D., All rights reserved.

Family Practice 52

Family Practice Primary Care Family Families 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 10, 2025

The researchers found that dental caries prevalence and total number of decayed teeth were estimated to increase by 7.5 percentage points and by 25.4 million cases in the base-case scenario of eliminating fluoridation, with a loss of 2.9 million QALYs at a cost of $9.8 billion over five years.

Insurance 52

Insurance Hospital Individual Family Practice 52