Primary health care reform has become an area of priority in health policy with a strong importance placed on interdisciplinary teams of health care professionals. Quebec's model, the groupes de médicine de famille (GMFs), were introduced late in 2002 emphasizing team-centered approaches to service delivery and aiming to improve access to primary health care, especially to improve after-hours access and to increase the number of Quebecers with a family doctor.A decade after their implementation, I investigated the impact of GMFs on various measures of access to primary health care and perceived remaining barriers. I emphasize potential access – i.e. measures that capture whether an individual has the ability to access needed health care inc...
Despite various health reforms over the last 20 years, access to primary care remained stagnant in Q...
AbstractPrimary care has proven to be extremely difficult to reform in Canada because of the origina...
Canada is reforming its health care system, with pri-mary care as a major focus.1 The population of ...
Since 2000, province-led initiatives to bring about sustained changes to the organization of primary...
AbstractPurposeNew models of delivering primary care are being implemented in various countries. In ...
Primary Health Care (PHC) teams are an important component of the health system – particularly in te...
Since 2002, two successive reforms have been introduced in Quebec, namely, the implementation of fam...
Hospital readmissions have been of wide policy interest, either as a quality measure of hospital car...
Objectives. To assess the extent to which new primary healthcare (PHC) models implemented in two reg...
Abstract Background First-contact accessibility remains an important problem in Canada, with this in...
Introduction: Family medicine groups (FMGs) were implemented in Québec over a decade ago as a new mo...
Abstract Background Reform of primary healthcare (PHC) organisations is underway in Canada. The capa...
Introduction During the last decade the Quebec Public Health Care System (QPHCS) had an important tr...
Accessibility to the health system and primary care organization This article is about an analysis o...
Improving the integration of health services for patients with complex needs is a priority across Ca...
Despite various health reforms over the last 20 years, access to primary care remained stagnant in Q...
AbstractPrimary care has proven to be extremely difficult to reform in Canada because of the origina...
Canada is reforming its health care system, with pri-mary care as a major focus.1 The population of ...
Since 2000, province-led initiatives to bring about sustained changes to the organization of primary...
AbstractPurposeNew models of delivering primary care are being implemented in various countries. In ...
Primary Health Care (PHC) teams are an important component of the health system – particularly in te...
Since 2002, two successive reforms have been introduced in Quebec, namely, the implementation of fam...
Hospital readmissions have been of wide policy interest, either as a quality measure of hospital car...
Objectives. To assess the extent to which new primary healthcare (PHC) models implemented in two reg...
Abstract Background First-contact accessibility remains an important problem in Canada, with this in...
Introduction: Family medicine groups (FMGs) were implemented in Québec over a decade ago as a new mo...
Abstract Background Reform of primary healthcare (PHC) organisations is underway in Canada. The capa...
Introduction During the last decade the Quebec Public Health Care System (QPHCS) had an important tr...
Accessibility to the health system and primary care organization This article is about an analysis o...
Improving the integration of health services for patients with complex needs is a priority across Ca...
Despite various health reforms over the last 20 years, access to primary care remained stagnant in Q...
AbstractPrimary care has proven to be extremely difficult to reform in Canada because of the origina...
Canada is reforming its health care system, with pri-mary care as a major focus.1 The population of ...