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Primary Care Practice Transformation

Improving Care for the Frail in Nova Scotia: An Implementation Evaluation of a Frailty Portal in Primary Care Practice

Background Understanding and addressing the needs of frail patients has been identified as an important strategy by the Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA). Primary care (PC) providers are in a key position to aid in the identification of, and response to frailty as part of routine care. Unlike singular chronic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension which garner a disease-based appr...

What providers want from the Primary Care Extension Service to facilitate practice transformation.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES While several experts have shared their visions of the Primary Care Extension Service (PCES) as called for in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), little is known about providers' perspective. We aimed to identify the most and least desired resources that primary care providers want from the PCES. METHODS A 70-question survey was administered to primary care providers (n=5...

Home care as change of the technical-assistance model.

OBJECTIVE To analyze home care practices of outpatient and hospital services and their constitution as a substitute healthcare network. METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES A qualitative study was carried out using tracer methodology to analyze four outpatient home care services from the Municipal Health Department and one service from a philanthropic hospital in the municipality of Belo Horizonte, Sout...

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