Increasing interest in quality assurance and effectiveness in health care has been generated by three major observations: about 20% of care is consistently demonstrated to be inappropriate, variations in practice cannot be explained be patient or facility factors, and decreased utilization as a...

Background: Preventive primary care outreach interventions with older persons have the potential to decrease mortality and institutionalization. Methods - We conducted a meta-analysis to assess the effect of preventive primary care outreach interventions on mortality, admissions to long-term...

A common element in many countries’ health system reform agenda is an emphasis on changes to the organization, financing and delivery of primary health care. Numerous objectives for primary health care reform have been cited in jurisdictions around the world with different approaches being...