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Towards a Fundamental Unit of Continuity of Care [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

We modeled the odds of 2019 patient visits being with their PCP using a binomial generalized linear mixed model with a random PCP intercept. These patients had 54% of 2019 visits with their PCP.

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Global health financing hits record high, but historical gaps persist

Medical Xpress

billion, which was 810% higher than the total spent on pandemic preparedness the prior two decades (2000-2019). A new global analysis shows total health-related financial assistance to fight COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the first two years of the pandemic was a record $37.8

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Patient experiences using primary care wait lists in Canada: A qualitative study [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

In 2019, 14.5% Context: Primary healthcare is the front door to the health system, facilitating access to diagnostic testing and specialist care. Patients without a regular primary care provider (a family physician or nurse practitioner) are considered "unattached,". of Canadians (approximately 4.6

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Health Care Job Growth Dropped During Pandemic, Recovered by 2024

Physician's Weekly

percent between quarter 4 of 2019 and quarter 2 of 2020 relative to predicted levels in absence of the pandemic. “This recovery contrasts with non-health care employment trends and may result from health care financing via insurance coverage shielding health care employment from macroeconomic fluctuations.”

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Impact of an Intensive Primary Care Service on Health Services Utilization in a High-Utilizer Patient Population [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To measure the impact on healthcare system utilization of an intensive primary care (IPC) service from 2019 through 2022. Few studies of high-utilization patient programs found improvements in the intervention groups compared to controls.

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The Positive Impact of Direct Primary Care on Employer Healthcare Spending

Plum Health

Studies conducted by the Society of Actuaries (SOA) and Milliman provide valuable insights into these new models of healthcare delivery and financing. As of 2019, 49.6% DPC and Subscription-based Primary Care are healthcare delivery models where a provider offers unlimited specified routine healthcare services for a monthly fee.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 3: Pharmacologic management of agitated children

PEMBlog

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award (U07MC37471) totaling $3M with 0 percent financed with nongovernmental sources. 2019 Mar;20(2):409-418. Epub 2019 Feb 19. 2019 May;20(3):537. 2019 Jul;20(4):688-689. West J Emerg Med. doi: 10.5811/westjem.2019.1.41344. 2019.1.41344.