Disparities in access to primary care are growing wider in Canada

MR Lavergne, A Bodner, S Allin… - Healthcare …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Canadian provinces and territories have undertaken varied reforms to how primary care is
funded, organized, and delivered, but equity impacts of reforms are unclear. We explore …

Clinical and economic impact of a community-based, hybrid model of in-person and virtual care in a Canadian rural setting: a cross-sectional population-based …

JP Fitzsimon, C Belanger, RH Glazier, M Green… - BMJ open, 2023 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives To determine the clinical and economic impact of a community-based, hybrid
model of in-person and virtual care by comparing health-system performance of the rural …

[HTML][HTML] Ending the generational blame game: Let us move forward with needed primary care change

MR Lavergne, C Moravac, I Scott… - Canadian Family …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Lindsay Hedden MSc PhD Agnes Grudniewicz PhD Emily Gard Marshall MSc PhD Changes
in practice patterns and, in particular, declining comprehensiveness among family …

Adapting care provision in family practice during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study exploring the impact of primary care reforms in four Canadian regions

M Mathews, L Hedden, J Lukewich, EG Marshall… - BMC Primary …, 2024 - Springer
Background Over the past two decades, Canadian provinces and territories have introduced
a series of primary care reforms in an attempt to improve access to and quality of primary …

Understanding the influence of medical education on physician geographic disposition: A qualitative study of family physician perspectives in Canada

L Grierson, A Elma, M Aggarwal… - Journal of Evaluation …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Rationale Primary care access challenges are experienced by many communities. In
several jurisdictions, including Canada, family physicians (FP) have the professional …

Productivity Decline or Administrative Avalanche? Examining Factors That Shape Changing Workloads in Primary Care.

R Lavergne, S Peterson, D Rudoler, I Scott… - Healthcare …, 2023 - search.ebscohost.com
Methods: We used linked administrative data in British Columbia to describe changes in
patient ages and comorbidities, hospitalizations and receipt of services that may require FP …

Growing inequities by immigration group among older adults: population-based analysis of access to primary care and return to in-person visits during the COVID-19 …

C Sierra-Heredia, E Tayyar, Y Bozorgi, P Thakore… - BMC Primary …, 2024 - Springer
Background The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic drove a rapid and widespread shift to
virtual care, followed by a gradual return to in-person visits. Virtual visits may offer more …

Changes in comprehensiveness of services delivered by Canadian family physicians: Analysis of population-based linked data in 4 provinces

MR Lavergne, D Rudoler, S Peterson, D Stock… - Canadian Family …, 2023 - cfp.ca
Objective To describe changes in the comprehensiveness of services delivered by family
physicians across service settings and service areas in 4 Canadian provinces, to identify …

Characteristics of family physicians with additional training or focused practices in caring for older adults: Population-based retrospective cohort study

RH Correia, C Frank, D Kirkwood, HYH Siu… - Canadian Family …, 2024 - cfp.ca
Objective To identify FPs with additional training and focused practice activities relevant to
the needs of older patients within health administrative data and to describe their medical …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating engagement with equity in Canadian provincial and territorial primary care policies: Results of a jurisdictional scan

S Spencer, T Hollingbery, A Bodner, L Hedden… - Health Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
Equitable access to primary care is essential to achieving more equitable health outcomes,
yet evidence suggests that structurally marginalized populations are less likely to have …