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Do compensation models affect family physician job satisfaction?: Scoping review

Canadian Family Physician

Study selection To be included articles had to be peer reviewed, at least 50% of study participants had to be family physicians practising longitudinal or comprehensive care, and articles had to address career satisfaction in relation to compensation models. Twenty-seven studies were included.

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Comprehensiveness in primary care: Findings from a scoping review [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

The search included a set of terms for the concept of "comprehensiveness" and a set of terms for "primary care." Population Studied: Sources that address the topic of comprehensive care in the primary care or family medicine setting were included.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

6 This graph shows the association between primary care physician density and life expectancy among US states: 3. Having Your Own Long-Term GP Can Save Your Life Patients who choose a GP rather than a specialist as their primary care provider have a 19% 8 lower mortality and produce 22% 9 -33% 8 lower healthcare spending.

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Poetry & Palliative Care: Podcast with Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar

GeriPal

To the deeper emotions – of loss and grief, of wonder and transcendence – that are at the heart of the complex care we provide. Mike Rabow’s Comprehensive Care Team randomized trial of outpatient palliative care. And along the way, we really felt like we got to the heart of things. AlexSmithMD .

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.”