Mounting evidence supports the need for more primary care physicians to care for an expanding, aging, and insured population. The U.S. primary care physician workforce is composed of graduates from both domestic and international medical schools. Trends in training, recruitment, and practice have policy and ethical implications. We used the American Medical Association Physician Masterfile to e...

Background & purpose: Since 2005, a reform known as Rural Insurance and Family Medicine Scheme has introduced to primary health care network in Iran in rural areas and small towns. The content of the reform implies a substantial change in those aspects of health centers that mainly could be categorized as structural quality. Although, this is the requirement of all health care providers, they a...

objective: to find out the quality of anc in the upazila health complexes (phc centres) of bangladesh. materials and methods: this cross sectional study was done in purposively selected three upazilas among the clients receiving antenatal care (anc). data were collected with questionnaire cum checklist in the context of two aspects of quality issues, namely assessment of physical arrangements f...

OBJECTIVES To quantify the association between community-dwelling older persons' level of morbidity and their perceptions of the quality of their primary care. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Urban primary care practice. PARTICIPANTS A sample of community-dwelling members of a capitated health plan aged 65 and older who were patients of four general internists in one urban practice ...

BACKGROUND Large multispecialty physician group practices, with a central role for primary care practitioners, have been shown to achieve high-quality, low-cost care for patients with chronic disease. We assessed the extent to which informal multispecialty physician networks in Ontario could be identified by using health administrative data to exploit natural linkages among patients, physicians...

The article discusses how non-physicians can help address the increasing shortage of primary care physicians in the United States. As demand for primary care services is projected to increase, the supply of primary care physicians is continuing to decline. Authors propose that non-physician professionals such as pharmacists and nurses are essential towards saving time for physicians, providing ...

BACKGROUND This analysis explores barriers to the receipt of health care from a primary care physician for management of chronic conditions. DATA AND METHODS A population-based survey was administered to adults in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia who had hypertension, diabetes, heart disease or stroke (n=1,849). Associations between socio-demographic factors and barriers t...