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Predicting Likelihood of Missed Appointments in Primary Care [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Despite efforts to improve patient-clinician relationships, access to care, and healthcare workflows, annual rates of missed appointments (MA) in the U.S Therefore, identifying appointments at risk of being missed is a crucial prevention strategy to optimize care quality, ensure continuity, and reduce costs. for CA, 0.85

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Enhancing Advanced Access in Primary Healthcare: Key Change Strategies from a Quality Improvement Initiative [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Timely access is crucial for high-quality primary healthcare delivery, yet remains a pervasive challenge globally, including in Canada. In Quebec, efforts to implement AA in Family Medicine Groups (FMGs) yielded partial success, necessitating comprehensive change strategies to ensure a tangible impact of the model.

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What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

This blog covers everything you need to know—from appointment types and coding to telehealth options and what really happens during your time with the provider. Many patients ask: What happens at a new patient appointment in primary care? What happens at an establish care appointment? What Is a Primary Care Visit?

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Accessing Pediatric Endocrinology Online in Canada

Dr. Zaar

Finding timely and specialized medical care can be quite a challenge for families, especially when it comes to pediatric endocrinology. Thankfully, pediatric endocrinology online in Canada is becoming more accessible, providing convenience and quality care to families across the country. Why Choose Virtual Pediatric Endocrine Care?

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Hormone virtual consultation for PCOS | Canadian women

Dr. Zaar

A virtual hormone consultation combines patients with certified endocrinologists or hormone experts through safe videos or phone appointments. You can book appointments that fit your schedule. These online services help women across Canada connect with endocrinologists quickly, eliminating long wait times and travel barriers.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Eric 01:08 On the other, we have the young upstart telehealth delivered palliative care.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

I am part of some other work in the ICU world looking at time-limited trials and trying to better define what those are, how we talk about them, how we talk about them with patients and families. We started pre-pandemic and very quickly it went to telehealth, so it was primarily telehealth. I’m just stunned even writing that!