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Changes in patterns and referrals of Nova Scotians seeking mental health care through 2-1-1 Referral Service [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context 2-1-1 is a designated phone help line in Canada and the US that provides referrals for individuals to local government and community-based services for a wide variety of needs, including social, health care, and mental health services. 2-1-1 Nova Scotia has operated since 2013 as a nonprofit that offers 24/7 assistance.

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Factors associated with patients' experience of access to their primary health care clinic: a multilevel analysis [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

This study aims to examine individual, organizational, and contextual factors associated with patients’ experience of access to their multidisciplinary primary healthcare clinic. Study Design and Analysis. This cross-sectional study builds on survey data collected in multidisciplinary PHC clinics.

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Facilitating Well-Being in Primary Healthcare During COVID-19: A Rapid Systematic Review [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objectives: i) Identify individual, organization, and/or systemic facilitators of PHC provider well-being relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic context, ii) Collect and summarize well-being facilitators amendable to actioning by PHC providers, leaders, administrators, and policymakers during and following the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Innovations in providing and accessing preventative primary care for young children during COVID-19 [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Instrument: An online survey was distributed, and subsequent semi-structured telephone or video interviews were conducted between May and December 2023. Results: 102 individuals completed the on-line survey and of those, 19 participated in the interviews (13 parents and six primary care providers).

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How Doctors Can Save More and Do Less

The Motivated MD

For the better half of 2024, I have been periodically writing posts that are individual articles that double as potential chapters to a future book. I have coined this content series Doctor Money: A Personal Finance Guide for Physicians , as this is my current working title. This is the same for personal finances.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

How is it financed and what comes next? I think Bruce can speak to that, I think, 30-year gap in finances. The finances, for us… Our goal is, really, to break even, or even lose a little bit of money, that’s okay, with the goal being that this is very patient-centered. Yeah, Eric: Yeah. We were going to them.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

But neither Kennedy nor President Donald Trump have explained why individual agencies such as AHRQ were targeted for cuts or indicated whether any of their work would continue. “What we’ve been doing isn’t working,” he said. Despite spending $1.9 trillion in annual costs, Americans are getting sicker every year.”