Facilitating prevention in primary care.

Facilitating prevention in primary care.

Facilitating the integration of prevention in primary care: a work in progress.

Strengthening prevention in primary care.

Opportunities for prevention in primary health care are many, but healthcare systems – in particular, Australia’s fragmentation between levels of government, and fee-for-service funding base – can often frustrate even the most well-intentioned prevention efforts of primary health care practitioners, providers and funders. In this issue of Public Health Research & Practice, themed ‘Strengthening...

Facilitating improvement in primary care: the promise of practice coaching.

Practice coaching, also called practice facilitation, assists physician practices with the desire to improve in such areas as patient access, chronic and preventive care, electronic medical record use, patient-centeredness, cultural competence, and team-building. This issue brief clarifies the essential features of practice coaching and offers guidance for health system leaders, public and priv...

Facilitating quality improvement in primary health care by practice visiting.

Introduction During the past decade, demands for eVective quality assessment in primary health care have increased considerably. “The third revolution of medical care” has seen a move towards more rigorous assessment of clinical interventions and increasing calls for more accountability. Although most agree that quality improvement is important there are many views about the best approach to qu...