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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

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. Setting: 8 multidisciplinary FMGs in Quebec, Canada Population: All healthcare providers and administrative staff.

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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]

Annals of Family Medicine

Between September 2022 and June 2023, online questionnaires were sent to patients attached to a family physician and to PHC professionals and administrative staff. A total of 122,397 patients and 999 family physicians, 107 nurse practitioners and 411 administrative staff nested into 104 clinics answered the survey. Population studied.

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

Annals of Family Medicine

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.

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You Know DPC is working when…

Noreta Family Medicine

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. Have a good week!

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Beyond Training: How Context Matters for Early Detection of Alzheimers Disease in Primary Care [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative Healthcare System Preparedness (DAC-SP) aims to catalyze global healthcare system transformation, providing Alzheimer’s patients and their families quicker access to life-changing innovations and therapies. clinical consensus, financing mechanisms) and the organization (e.g.,

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Improving Patient Communication

CDOCS

The question often becomes, how can we overcome this disparity in attitudes towards our professional network of referrals? ’ When working with a case that requires a combination of expertise from the general dentist and specialist, it is our job to be able to explain and provide understanding on all aspects of treatment.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. So we see a lot of problems with symptom management, a lot of family conflict.