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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. Context: The University of Colorado School of Medicine (CUSOM) launched their eConsult program in 2018. The median number of eConsults ordered by our top utilizers was 51 (range 18-363).

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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

While improving provider well-being has been identified as a promising adjunct to existing interventions based on burnout reduction, specific facilitators of well-being in pandemic contexts are unknown. resilience) for fully licensed providers were included. Results: We retrieved 1910 records; 195 studies were reviewed in full.

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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

Results: We identified pain points and barriers throughout the patient primary care journey across functional, emotional, cognitive and social dimensions.

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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

Setting: 8 multidisciplinary FMGs in Quebec, Canada Population: All healthcare providers and administrative staff. Additionally, promoting care continuity via 7) dedicated urgent care slots and 8) optimizing trainee supervision in teaching FMGs bolstered patient-provider relationships while ensuring consistent and relevant care.

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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

Regional human resources and population health data was collected from multiple data sources including federal, provincial/territorial, regional, and hospital/primary care levels, along with surveys to all providers. Descriptive analysis was conducted for quantitative data. Qualitative data was analyzed used thematic analysis.

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

Annals of Family Medicine

Secondary outcomes of interest were provider experience, health outcomes and cost of care, which were extracted only from studies that reported the primary outcome. Intervention (if appropriate): N/A Outcome Measures The main outcome of interest was a quantitative assessment of the capacity of the most responsible clinician(s) on the team.

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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

Some governing bodies require prior licensure for "out-of-province" physicians to provide telemedicine within their jurisdictions. Ethical, professional and legal requirements were alike for virtual care and in-person settings.

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