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Translating complex clinical environments to virtual care: Standards of Care in Virtual Medicine in Canada [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Rapid adoption of virtual care in early 2020, meant there was little time to develop or plan integrated virtual health care services, resulting in an urgency to establish governance for quality-based virtual care in Canada. Only the most recent published standards were used in analysis.

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Increasing primary care capacity by adding team members [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

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). Study Design Rapid scoping review.

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

Annals of Family Medicine

Population Studied: OHT health workforce, including primary care and its attributed patient population. A set of policy recommendations focused on: 1) HHR governance structure within OHTs, 2) consolidation of the primary care workforce, and 3) data and reporting.' Setting/Data sets: One OHT in Eastern Ontario, Canada.

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Enhancing primary healthcare capacity : A qualitative study from the perspective of managers of PHC institutions in China [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Patients can perceive the following three characteristics of the services provided by community health service centers: services with high quality, integrated services, and services with "speed", and "warmth", which helps to improve their evaluation of the medical service quality and capability of such institutions.

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

Annals of Family Medicine

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.

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

Annals of Family Medicine

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. It is clear that the challenges faced in providing optimal care in nursing homes are deeply rooted in systemic issues.

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Permanente Live webinar — Finding success in value-based care

Permanente Medicine

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