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Canada were at the periphery of the system rather than at its core. In the early 2000s, a new policy environment emerged …. Methods: This policy analysis examines primary health care reform efforts in Canada during the last decade, drawing on … of primary health care in Canada. Findings: Primary health care in Canada has entered a period of potentially …
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Health-care reform is perennially popular in Alberta, but reality doesn’t match the rhetoric. Government has invested more than $700 million in Primary Care Networks — with little beyond anecdotal evidence of the value achieved with this investment. As the province redirects primary care to...
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The objective of the paper is to estimate the effect of physician bonus eligibility on CRC screening while controlling for patient and primary care physician characteristics. The study is retrospective, using a managed care plan's claims data on fifty-year-old commercially insured patients in...
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For the past decade-and-a-half, the government of Ontario has been implementing sweeping reforms in an effort to … some clinics, also have salary and similar models as options. Ontario has simultaneously introduced patient “rostering … provincial supply of primary care is appropriate. In a health-care system as large and complex as Ontario’s, reform is more …
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The universal health care (UHC) law mandates that all Filipinos should have access to essential primary care services with a focus on preventive healthcare. As plans are being made by the government to map out a comprehensive outpatient benefit package covering primary care, it would be a worthy...
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Team-based practice in primary care has been advocated for improved access, quality, effectiveness, and cost-efficiency of primary health care services, but there is limited empirical evidence supporting it.
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One of the core primary care reform initiatives seen across provinces in Canada is the introduction of inter … Canada over the 2001–2007 period, cohorts are defined over five-year intervals according to their year of graduation from …
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utilization of care in Canada and the United States (US). Data came from the 2007–2008 Canadian Community Health Survey and the … Canada and n = 7440 in the US). Health care indicators included having a usual source of care; annual consultation with a …, socioeconomic status, and insurance coverage. In general, rates of health care access and utilization were higher in Canada than the …
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diabetic patients and clinicians, collected during a study of six Ontario Family Health Teams, to explore the questions of …
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The impetus for this study arose from the need to upgrade the case mix measure of choice in use at the national level in Ireland. Since 1993, various versions of the DRG grouper supported by the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) had been in use in Ireland. With improvements in...
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