Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Understanding patients’ experience accessing primary health care (PHC) is necessary in order to move toward better service organization and more equitable PHC access. A total of 122,397 patients and 999 family physicians, 107 nurse practitioners and 411 administrative staff nested into 104 clinics answered the survey.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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. Context: Timely access is crucial for high-quality primary healthcare delivery, yet remains a pervasive challenge globally, including in Canada.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

million adults in Canada do not have a family doctor or nurse practitioner. Objective To discover what is known in the literature about whether and how interprofessional primary care teams can impact the "capacity" (ability of the most-responsible clinician to serve more patients). Context Over 6.5

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Continuity of care between a patient and their primary care practitioner (PCP) is a cornerstone of primary care (PC) and is associated with many positive health outcomes. Many proposed methods for measuring continuity utilize an aggregation of patient visits. These patients had 54% of 2019 visits with their PCP.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Patients without a regular primary care provider (a family physician or nurse practitioner) are considered "unattached,". To address ongoing challenges with patient access and attachment to a primary care provider, several Canadian provinces introduced primary healthcare centralized wait lists (CWL).

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