Enhancing Value-Based Care With a Walk-in Clinic: A Primary Care Provider Intervention to Decrease Low Acuity Emergency Department Overutilization

Enhancing dementia care: a primary care-based memory clinic.

Memory clinics have been promoted as opportunities for improving dementia diagnosis and care. This article describes the implementation of an interdisciplinary memory clinic within primary care in Ontario, Canada, that aims to provide timely access to comprehensive assessment and care and to improve referring physicians' knowledge of the management of dementia through collaborative care and pra...

Alternate Access to Care: A Cross Sectional Survey of Low Acuity Emergency Department Patients

Introduction Patients with low-acuity (Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale level IV and V) complaints use the emergency department (ED) to access care. This has often been attributed to lack of a primary care provider. However, simply being registered with a primary care provider may not prevent low acuity ED presentation. There is some evidence that a lack of timely access to primary care may con...

The effect of prior interactions with a primary care provider on nonurgent pediatric emergency department use.

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of parental reported difficulty getting care without long waits from a primary care provider (PCP) on nonurgent pediatric emergency department (ED) use. DESIGN Case-control study. SETTING Pediatric ED within an urban pediatric hospital. PARTICIPANTS Children, aged 6 months to 12 years, who presented with a chief complaint from a predetermined list of nonu...

Connecting Emergency Department Patients to Primary Care.

BACKGROUND Inappropriate emergency department (ED) use among Medicaid enrollees is considered a problem because of cost. We developed and evaluated a system change innovation designed to remove system barriers to primary care access for Medicaid patients. METHODS Patients who presented to the ED without an identified primary care provider were randomized to the intervention (n = 72) or compar...

Primary care physiotherapy in the Emergency Department.