Primary care is in crisis. Recent estimates indicate 6.5 million Canadians, including 2.5 million Ontarians, do not have a primary care provider. Interprofessional primary care teams include a range ...

Participants from the Best Practices Innovation Collaborative of the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care have identified five core principles of effective team-based ...

Leaders at the intersection of primary care policy, payment, practice, and advocacy described the most promising steps national organizations are taking toward operationalizing whole-person care at ...

Much can be learned from experiences with primary care scorecards over the past decade and the recent release of national and state-level scorecards in the US. Lessons from prior efforts can inform ...

Primary care is crucial for improving health outcomes and lowering overall healthcare costs. According to a 2021 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “People in ...

Authors build on past tracking of primary care workforce numbers, adding 2023 data and including the behavioral health workforce. They propose policy reform through funding of primary care workforce ...