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Exploring Primary Care Provider eConsult Utilization Trends [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To determine how primary care providers (PCP) utilize the eConsult platform. Study Design and Analysis: This retrospective analysis of program data spans from 2018 through 2023. It includes templated eConsult exchange data extracted from the electronic health record. Setting or Dataset: CUSOM and University Hospital.

Utilities

Utilities Primary Care Provider PCP

Gender, Racial and Immigration Pay Gaps in Canadian Family Medicine: Qualitative findings from a mixed-methods analysis [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

These pay gaps are well documented outside of Canada, but little empirical work has been done to understand pay gaps in Canada, in family medicine, or using an intersectional lens. Objective: Understand how the identity features of Ontario family physicians (e.g.

DO

DO Family Medicine Families Family

Staff perspectives of a novel integrated community care hub in an urban underserved population (UK) [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Its domains include Service Delivery, Workforce, Financing, and Leadership and Governance o Setting or Dataset o Population Studied: The study is set in Sparkbrook in inner-city Birmingham (UK), one of the most ethnically diverse and poorest areas in the UK with high levels of deprivation and unemployment.

Community

Community Integrated Care Finance Family Practice

Primary care workforce planning within integrated care models: Application of a workforce planning toolkit [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting/Data sets: One OHT in Eastern Ontario, Canada. Seven federal and provincial data sets, including professional colleges. Population Studied: OHT health workforce, including primary care and its attributed patient population. Intervention: The Integrated Primary Care Workforce Planning Toolkit was applied to one OHT.

Integrated Care

Integrated Care Primary Care Finance Provider

Organizational Dehumanization of Nurses in Healthcare Systems: A Scoping Review [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

No restriction on the year of publication was considered since few studies on the subject were published. A thematic content analysis was conducted. Organizational dehumanization is defined in various ways in the literature. It takes different forms depending on the context. Conclusion. Limited studies focused on this important issue.

Healthcare

Healthcare Finance Consulting Patients

I Could Do Much Better but the System Doesnt Allow Me [Geriatrics]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Nursing home residents and their families prioritised personalised care that meets their diverse physical, emotional, social, and cognitive needs, while preserving dignity and functional abilities. We all want to do the best we can for our patients, but frequently encounter a wall of resistance that prevents us from doing the best we could.

Finance

Finance Management Government Physicals

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

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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.

Referral

Referral Mental Health Finance Community

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

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Comprehensiveness is a central element of primary care and family medicine but has not been clearly and consistently conceptualized in literature. Population Studied: Sources that address the topic of comprehensive care in the primary care or family medicine setting were included.

Primary Care

Primary Care Finance Family Medicine DO

Manifestation of Primary Care Features in Shanghais Family Doctor Service and Their Impact on Health: A Mixed-Methods Study [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To evaluate the real-life experiences and impacts of primary care functional features under Shanghai’s family doctor contract service program, analyzing their effects and mechanisms on health outcomes. Population Studied: Shanghai patients enrolled in the family doctor contract service over the past twelve months.

Primary Care

Primary Care Family Doctor Families Family

You Know DPC is working when…

Noreta Family Medicine

MARCH 26, 2025

At Noreta Family Medicine, we offer hour-long appointments, allowing time to build a meaningful doctor-patient relationship and creating a space where patients can openly express their concerns and receive the attention they deserve. “ patients have easy access to their family doctor. patients feel heard and valued.

Primary Care

Primary Care Appointment Family Medicine DO

Conversations about Cost During Weight-Prioritized Visits in Primary Care [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

CA findings expanded on interviews and identified three approaches that clinicians use to initiate cost conversations: 1) cost-related pronouncements ("I’m gonna prescribe this as X so it’s covered by insurance"), 2) cost-related inquiries ("Do you still have the GoodRX coupon?"), and 3) generic inquiries ("Any issues?").

Primary Care

Primary Care Finance Insurance Management

Nurturing collaboration between non-profit organizations and primary healthcare partners: An instrumental case study [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: To identify challenges and facilitators to collaborations between a NPO and primary healthcare partners. Study design: An instrumental case study design. Setting: A NPO and its partners in the healthcare (primary care clinics), social services, and community networks in a rural context.

Healthcare

Healthcare Finance Integrated Care Relationship

" Healthcare organizations administrative policies are just too rigid. ": why nurses leave primary and emergency care [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Conclusions. Nurses leaving the primary and emergency care are experienced. The loss of expertise that results from their departure is a major challenge for access to care and services. It is therefore important to take account of their professional dissatisfactions to reduce turnover and improve nurses’ attraction.

Healthcare

Healthcare Primary Care Finance Individual

Patient Experience of Emergency Department Care in Newfoundland and Labrador: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Conclusions: Our findings will offer a comprehensive examination of the factors influencing the quality of patient care experiences within EDs and how patient demographics and the geographical location of the ED affect it.

Finance

Finance Patients Relationship Physicals

MN Legislative Session 2025: Updates on Health Care Bills

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MARCH 27, 2025

As we move into the tenth week of the legislative session, Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) lobbyist Megan Verdeja breaks down what’s happening at the Minnesota State Capitol and provides an update on health care bills. HOUSE COMMERCE FINANCE AND POLICY COMMITTEE H.F. Read a summary of S.F.

Family Physician

Family Physician Insurance Finance Individual

MN Legislative Session 2025: Updates on Hearings and Bills

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MARCH 13, 2025

Last week, the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) was actively engaged in multiple discussions on health care policy, including Medical Assistance rate reimbursement, coverage for the Psychiatric Collaborative Care Model and broader reforms to patient-centered care. Read a summary of HF 1005. Read a summary of HF 958.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered Telehealth Management Finance

Legislative passage of Medicare

The Health Policy Exchange

JANUARY 3, 2013

The legislative passage of Medicare was the subject of the first of a series of monthly one-hour health policy seminars for Family Medicine fellows and residents at Georgetown University School of Medicine. health care legislation until the 2010 Affordable Care Act.

Insurance

Insurance Family Medicine DO Finance

Primary Care Digest

Exploring Primary Care Provider eConsult Utilization Trends [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Gender, Racial and Immigration Pay Gaps in Canadian Family Medicine: Qualitative findings from a mixed-methods analysis [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

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Staff perspectives of a novel integrated community care hub in an urban underserved population (UK) [Child and adolescent health]

Primary care workforce planning within integrated care models: Application of a workforce planning toolkit [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Organizational Dehumanization of Nurses in Healthcare Systems: A Scoping Review [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

I Could Do Much Better but the System Doesnt Allow Me [Geriatrics]

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

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

Manifestation of Primary Care Features in Shanghais Family Doctor Service and Their Impact on Health: A Mixed-Methods Study [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

You Know DPC is working when…

Conversations about Cost During Weight-Prioritized Visits in Primary Care [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Nurturing collaboration between non-profit organizations and primary healthcare partners: An instrumental case study [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

" Healthcare organizations administrative policies are just too rigid. ": why nurses leave primary and emergency care [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Patient Experience of Emergency Department Care in Newfoundland and Labrador: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

MN Legislative Session 2025: Updates on Health Care Bills

MN Legislative Session 2025: Updates on Hearings and Bills

Legislative passage of Medicare

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