Author: John Christopher KnightPublisher:
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Category : Health facilities
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
The Association of Continuity of Family Physician Care with Health Care Services Utlization and Costs in Newfoundland and Labrador
Author: John Christopher KnightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health facilities
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
The Family Physician's Role in a Continuum of Care Framework for Newfoundland and Labrador
Author: Newfoundland. Primary Care Advisory CommitteePublisher:
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Category : Physicians (General practice)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The Impact of Team-Based Primary Care on Health Care Services Utilization and Costs
Author: Erin StrumpfPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
We investigate the effects on health care costs and utilization of team-based primary care delivery: Quebec's Family Medicine Groups (FMGs). FMGs include extended hours, patient enrollment and multidisciplinary teams, but they maintain the same remuneration scheme (fee-for-service) as outside FMGs. In contrast to previous studies, we examine the impacts of organizational changes in primary care settings in the absence of changes to provider payment and outside integrated care systems. We built a panel of administrative data of the population of elderly and chronically ill patients, characterizing all individuals as FMG enrollees or not. Participation in FMGs is voluntary and we address potential selection bias by matching on GP propensity scores, using inverse probability of treatment weights at the patient level, and then estimating difference-in-differences models. We also use appropriate modelling strategies to account for the distributions of health care cost and utilization data. We find that FMGs significantly decrease patients' health care services utilization and costs in outpatient settings relative to patients not in FMGs. The number of primary care visits decreased by nearly 8% per patient per year among FMG enrollees and specialist visits declined by 5%. The declines in costs were of roughly equal magnitude. We found no evidence of an effect on ED visits, hospitalizations, or their associated costs. These results provide support for the idea that primary care organizational reforms can have impacts on the health care system in the absence of changes to physician payment mechanisms. The extent to which the decline in GP visits represents substitution with other primary care providers warrants further investigation.
Family Expenditures for Medical Care
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Making Medical Practice and Education More Relevant to People's Needs
Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher:
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Category : Family medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Contribution of Family Medicine to Improving Health Systems
Author: Michael KiddPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1846199549
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
"This guidebook systematically analyses the contribution of family medicine to highquality primary health care in addressing the challenges faced by current health systems, and provides options for moving forward. It serves as a pragmatic guide to potential strategies for putting in place family care teams which effectively contribute to health sec
Financial Arrangements Between Physicians and Health Care Businesses
Author: United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of Inspector General. Office of Analysis and InspectionsPublisher:
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Category : Health facilities
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Meeting the Challenge of Family Practice
Author: American Medical Association. Ad Hoc Committee on Education for Family PracticePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Cumulated Index Medicus
Author: Providing Valuable Services to Our Members
Author: Newfoundland and Labrador Medical AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Physicians
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description