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The impact of primary care reform on health system performance in Canada: a systematic review

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العنوان: The impact of primary care reform on health system performance in Canada: a systematic review
المؤلفون: Carter, Renee, Riverin, Bruno, Levesque, Jean-Frédéric, Gariepy, Geneviève, Quesnel-Vallée, Amélie
بيانات النشر: BioMed Central Ltd.
سنة النشر: 2016
المجموعة: BioMed Central
مصطلحات موضوعية: Primary care reform, Payment models, Team-based practice, Canada
الوصف: Background We aimed to synthesize the evidence of a causal effect and draw inferences about whether Canadian primary care reforms improved health system performance based on measures of health service utilization, processes of care, and physician productivity. Methods We searched the Embase, PubMed and Web of Science databases for records from 2000 to September 2015. We based our risk of bias assessment on the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation guidelines. Full-text studies were synthesized and organized according to the three outcome categories: health service utilization, processes of care, and physician costs and productivity. Results We found moderate quality evidence that team-based models of care led to reductions in emergency department use, but the evidence was mixed for hospital admissions. We also found low quality evidence that team-based models, blended capitation models and pay-for-performance incentives led to small and sometimes non-significant improvements in processes of care. Studies examining new payment models on physician costs and productivity were of high methodological quality and provided a coherent body of evidence assessing enhanced fee-for-service and blended capitation payment models. Conclusion A small number of studies suggested that team-based models contributed to reductions in emergency department use in Quebec and Alberta. Regarding processes of diabetes care, studies found higher rates of testing for blood glucose levels, retinopathy and cholesterol in Alberta’s team-based primary care model and in practices eligible for pay-for-performance incentives in Ontario. However pay-for-performance in Ontario was found to have null to moderate effects on other prevention and screening activities. Although blended capitation payment in Ontario contributed to decreases in the number of services delivered and patients seen per day, the number of enrolled patients and number of days worked in a year was similar to that of enhanced fee-for-service ...
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: English
العلاقة: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/16/324Test
الإتاحة: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/16/324Test
حقوق: Copyright 2016 The Author(s).
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.FE531929
قاعدة البيانات: BASE