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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

Context: Timely access is crucial for high-quality primary healthcare delivery, yet remains a pervasive challenge globally, including in Canada. year Quality Improvement initiative aimed at enhancing AA in multidisciplinary primary healthcare. Objective: To delineate key change strategies from a 3.5-year

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

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To determine how primary care providers (PCP) utilize the eConsult platform. Provider usage of the platform declined steadily over time. By understanding how PCPs engage with eConsult platforms, healthcare systems can pinpoint areas of opportunities for engagement and training.

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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

Context: Community health services constitute the cornerstone of China's primary healthcare system. Since the recent healthcare reforms, significant strides have been made in the development of community health services across the country.

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Patient Journey Mapping: How Attached and Unattached Community Members Access Primary Care [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Patient journey mapping is a key input in patient-centered quality improvement processes to not only generate change ideas that improve the individuals’ primary care experience, but also to demonstrate the receptiveness of the system to patient feedback on the structure and quality of their own healthcare journeys.

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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

This study aims to examine individual, organizational, and contextual factors associated with patients’ experience of access to their multidisciplinary primary healthcare clinic. Study Design and Analysis. This cross-sectional study builds on survey data collected in multidisciplinary PHC clinics.

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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

Improvements in implementation of virtual care are needed across Canada for safer, equitable and accessible healthcare. Some governing bodies require prior licensure for "out-of-province" physicians to provide telemedicine within their jurisdictions.

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