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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Outcomes measures: Change strategies that demonstrated the capacity to improve timely access such as 3rd next available appointment, care continuity and team collaboration. FMGs included physicians, nurses, social workers, pharmacists. Results: Seven key change strategies emerged, which could be grouped under 4 categories.

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Healthcare Nurse Practitioner Finance Appointment

Profiling patterns of patient experiences of access to care and continuity at team-based primary healthcare clinics [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Conclusions: Our results showed potential areas for improvement, such as facilitating appointment booking for recently arrived immigrants and patients with low education, integrating interprofessional collaboration practices for patients with chronic conditions and improving care coordination for patients with mental health needs.

Healthcare

Healthcare Clinic Chronic Condition Finance

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

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Two patient-reported experiences were assessed: 1) difficulty having an appointment with regular family physician or nurse practitioners, and 2) unmet healthcare needs. A self-reported survey based on the advanced access model for professionals and administrative staff. Outcomes measures.

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Nurse Practitioner Clinic Family Physician Finance

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

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Patients are increasingly challenged to find appointments and achieve real continuity with their PCPs. Conclusions: Significant variation in visit-level patient continuity underscores the importance of strategies tailored to specific populations and clinician characteristics if greater continuity is to be achieved.

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PCP PCP Finance Nurse Practitioner

You Know DPC is working when…

Noreta Family Medicine

MARCH 26, 2025

Many of our patients have shared how they often felt rushed at their previous primary care doctor’s office, leaving appointments with lingering concerns. For instance, when a patient recently texted us with complaints of shoulder pain after a fall, Dr. Boylan arranged an appointment and ordered an X-ray — all within just a few hours. “

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Primary Care Appointment DO Family Medicine

Misconceptions of Employer Sponsored Direct Primary Care (DPC)

Plum Health

MAY 22, 2023

DPC clinics provide members with: Personalized, preventive care Management of chronic conditions No co-pays or insurance billing Treatment of ailments and illnesses Same-day appointments and no wait times Unlimited appointment lengths 24/7 access to care Exams, labs, and testing Specialist referrals, as necessary And much more.

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Primary Care PCP PCP Insurance

The Positive Impact of Direct Primary Care on Employer Healthcare Spending

Plum Health

JULY 6, 2023

Studies conducted by the Society of Actuaries (SOA) and Milliman provide valuable insights into these new models of healthcare delivery and financing. This is because appointments can generally be scheduled at almost any time and wait times at the office are usually shorter.

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Primary Care Healthcare Insurance Finance

Practice tip of the week: Be an on-time physician

Physician's Practice

JUNE 16, 2025

This April 2024 article by Neil Baum, MD , on being an on-time physician gives this tip: Instruct new patients to arrive 20-30 minutes before their appointment to fill out paperwork or complete the paperwork online if your website provides the forms for patient demographics and a health care questionnaire.

Management

Management Private Practice Patients Medical

Lead, follow or get out of the way

Physician's Practice

JUNE 20, 2025

Did they have to wait long to obtain an appointment? For example, if you need to refer your patient to another physician for specialized attention, encourage staff to do the preliminary work and make the call and appointment for the patient. or less) on an appointment card. What is it that they see?

Management

Management Patient-Centered Appointment Patients

9 design tweaks to refresh your practice

Physician's Practice

JUNE 24, 2025

Likewise, flow-oriented layouts have been linked to higher staff productivity and fewer late appointments. Research shows that design cues such as soft lighting and muted earth tones can drop perceived wait times by as much as 25%, even when actual waits remain unchanged. Read the findings.

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Management Patients Consulting Finance

Kerala resident doctors’ strike: a must win movement for the doctors and patients

Tiny Physician

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Appointment of Non-Academic Junior Residents (NAJRs) till new batch of junior residents arrives. Resident doctors of Kerala The first demand was to appoint NAJRs to increase the manpower in the medical colleges. Nevertheless, the finance department withheld this yearly increase in stipend citing the COVID pandemic as a reason.

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Patients Government Appointment Finance

How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

And then the family tells me they can’t keep an appointment, they can’t manage their finances. Eric 18:39 Yeah, I do worry a little bit because I recently had a primary care appointment. Well, there’s my complaint. What is that screening test gonna do for me? Well, not recently, like six months, a year ago.

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT

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

Profiling patterns of patient experiences of access to care and continuity at team-based primary healthcare clinics [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

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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]

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Practice tip of the week: Be an on-time physician

Lead, follow or get out of the way

9 design tweaks to refresh your practice

Kerala resident doctors’ strike: a must win movement for the doctors and patients

How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

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