PURPOSE To develop and evaluate a concise measure of primary care that is grounded in
the experience of patients, clinicians, and health care payers. METHODS We asked crowd …

PURPOSE In 2004, we undertook a consultation with Canadian primary health care experts
to define the attributes that should be evaluated in predominant and proposed models of …

BACKGROUND. Substantial research links many of the defining characteristics of primary
care to important out comes; yet little is known about the relative importance of each …

Objectives. The authors examine the data quality and measurement performance of the
Primary Care Assessment Survey (PCAS), a patient-completed questionnaire that …

Primary care in the United States currently struggles to attract new physicians and to garner
investments in infrastructure required to meet patients' needs. We believe that the absence …

Patient-centered care has received new prominence with its inclusion by the Institute of
Medicine as 1 of the 6 aims of quality. Seven attributes of patient-centered primary care are …

BACKGROUND: This paper reports on the validation of the Consumer/Client Primary Care
Assessment Tool--Adult Edition (PCAT-AE) by assessing the congruence between the …

PURPOSE More than a decade ago the American Academy of Family Physicians, American
Academy of Family Physicians Foundation, American Board of Family Medicine, Association …

Primary health care (PHC) has been recognized as a core component of effective health
systems since the early part of the twentieth century. However, despite notable progress …

The purpose of this study was to inform quality improvement and performance measurement
initiatives in primary healthcare based on the perceptions of British Columbia residents. Key …