Population and primary health-care team characteristics explain the quality of the service

Acceptability of the Urban Family Medicine Project among Physicians: A Cross-Sectional Study of Medical Offices, Iran

“…This finding was in line with those of other studies (Barrett et al, 2007;Fodeman et al, 2015;Gene-Badia et al, 2008;Khan et al, 2008;Sarma et al, 2012;Tourigny et al, 2010). Interdisciplinary collaboration encourages the formation of healthcare teams comprising general physicians, specialists, and pharmacists to deliver primary care services (Barrett et al, 2007).…”

“…Interdisciplinary collaboration encourages the formation of healthcare teams comprising general physicians, specialists, and pharmacists to deliver primary care services (Barrett et al, 2007). Collaborative behavior could affect the outcomes of the healthcare system (Gene-Badia et al, 2008;Tourigny et al, 2010). Collaboration is generally viewed positively in the delivery of primary healthcare services to the population.…”

Does team-based primary health care improve patients’ perception of outcomes? Evidence from the 2007–08 Canadian Survey of Experiences with Primary Health

“…Not all studies find the positive impact of team-based practice on health outcomes of patients [11,[18][19][20]37], however. Several studies reported limited access to the primary care physician because of delegation of certain tasks to non-physicians in teams [21].…”

“…Some studies suggest that teambased practice is positively associated with improved patient outcomes, such as increased access, improved quality of service, effective management of chronic diseases [3,5,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. By contrast, other studies suggest a negligible impact of team-based PHC delivery on patient outcomes: limited access to physicians, compromised continuity of care, duplication of efforts, creation of barriers of disciplinary territoriality, systems inertia and organizational complexity [11,[18][19][20][21][22]. Aside from these somewhat conflicting findings, it is not clear whether these associations are causal as most studies were unable to account for selection bias associated with non-experimental data in this field of research.…”

Experiências com a atenção primária associadas à saúde, características sociodemográficas e uso de serviços em crianças e adolescentes

“…Jerant et al 7 showed that a reduced risk of mortality was associated with a better patient-reported access to primary care. Race/ethnicity, household poverty, status, parent education, and health insurance coverage are some of the socioeconomic features associated with differences in primary care experiences of access and continuity 8,9 , but little is known how population health or the kind of services used impact user experience of different aspects of primary health care 10 An association between access or use of services and perceptions of those services, similar to that found in studies of patient-reported care coordination between different levels of care, could be expected 11 .…”