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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

Context: High-utilizer patient populations reflect poor health for those patients and high resource use for health systems. Few studies of high-utilization patient programs found improvements in the intervention groups compared to controls.

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AAFP Represents Members During 2025 Legislative Session

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

By engaging with lawmakers and key stakeholders, the Academy worked to ensure that the voices of family physicians were heard in discussions that have the potential to impact healthcare delivery and access for communities across the state. What Happened: The Senate Committee on Finance and Taxation Education did not meet to discuss the bill.

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Scaling up integrated care programs for people with complex needs: a realist synthesis [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

strengthened capacity, capability, and collaboration) and community (e.g. healthier communities). These positive outcomes are produced when mechanisms, such as partner buy in and perceptions of the meaning, uses, and utility of the program, are triggered. enhanced experience), health system (e.g.

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Mapping Patient Access to Care and Quality of Care based on Distance from Family Physician [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: In Ontario, patients who move increasingly keep their family physician (FP) because no one in their new community is accepting new patients, creating long distances to seek primary care. Healthcare utilization outcomes included the number of core primary care visits, continuity of care to own group, and emergency department visits.

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Improving Patient Communication

CDOCS

& We participate within our dental community in educational meetings and events, which builds our trust in the specialist. By the utilization of patient financing strategies, we can help to facilitate a means of affordability for the everyday patient.</span></span></p>

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Should Recent Weather Events Impact Your Emergency Fund?

The Motivated MD

However, this is a personal finance blog, and for me, it goes beyond that. Helene highlighted that even wealthy communities and well-financed and well-educated populations can be caught off guard and devastated. Is there anything to be learned from all of this? Low and high socioeconomic classes alike, no one is spared.

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Home Care Utilization Patterns Among Canadians with Dementia Living in Rural and Urban Settings: A Cross-Sectional Study [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: This study aims to describe the home care utilization patterns of Canadians aged 50 and older with dementia compared to those without. This study further seeks to understand the impact of geography (rural, small population centre (PC), medium PC, and large PC) on home care utilization among Canadians with dementia.

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