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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.

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Facilitating Well-Being in Primary Healthcare During COVID-19: A Rapid Systematic Review [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: The COVID-19 pandemic increased critical levels of turnover of healthcare workers in interdisciplinary primary healthcare (PHC) teams, including family physicians, nurses, social workers, and others. resilience) for fully licensed providers were included.

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AAFP Represents Members During 2025 Legislative Session

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

During the session, the Alabama Academy of Family Physicians actively represented the interests of its members on a range of healthcare initiatives. What Happened: The Senate Committee on Finance and Taxation Education did not meet to discuss the bill. The 2025 Alabama Legislative Session concluded on May 14 at midnight.

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Practice organization characteristics are more impactful than intentions in practice scope of early-career family physicians [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Family physician (FP) scope of practice (SOP) has declined, with fewer physicians providing basic primary care services and fewer bridging the clinic-hospital divide. Study Design and Analysis: A longitudinal cohort was surveyed through the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM).

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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. Study Design: A cross-sectional analysis of patients and FPs in Ontario from April 1, 2021, to March 31, 2023.

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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

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. offering virtual visits on request).

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Patient experiences using primary care wait lists in Canada: A qualitative study [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Patients without a regular primary care provider (a family physician or nurse practitioner) are considered "unattached,". million people aged 12 and older) were unattached to a regular primary care provider. In 2019, 14.5% of Canadians (approximately 4.6