Case Study: West End Quality Improvement Collaboration
The West End Quality Improvement Collaboration is a partnership of six community health centres in Toronto that was established with the goal of increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery by working alongside one another on quality indicators. Community health centres are funded to serve the most marginalized populations, which include people living in poverty, homeless people, street-involved people, newcomers and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning) people.
Illustrating the Patient Journey through the Care Continuum: Leveraging Structured Primary Care Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Data in Ontario, Canada using Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease as a Case Study
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Characteristics of health care related to mental health and substance use disorders among Community Health Centre clients in Ontario: a population-based cohort study
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Community orientation in primary care practices: Results from the Comparison of Models of Primary Health Care in Ontario Study
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Objective: To determine which of 4 organizational models of primary care in Ontario were more community oriented.
Design: Cross-sectional investigation using practice and provider surveys derived from the Primary Care Assessment Tool, with nested qualitative case studies (2 practices per model).
Self-Management, Health Service Use and Information Seeking for Diabetes Care among Black Caribbean Immigrants in Toronto
Nutrition and obesity care in multidisciplinary primary care settings in Ontario, Canada: Short duration of visits and complex health problems perceived as barriers
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- Nutrition was perceived to be an important topic when discussing weight.
- Primary care providers perceived their knowledge in nutrition to be suboptimal.
- Access to allied health professionals facilitated referrals.
- Electronic Medical Records facilitated obesity management and communication.
- Lack of time and increase in multimorbidities hindered preventive care.
How Equity-Oriented Healthcare Affects Health
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- A consensus regarding the need to orient health systems to address inequities is emerging, with much of this discussion targeting population health interventions and indicators. We know less about applying these approaches to primary health care.
Attachment to primary care and team-based primary care
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Objective: To examine attachment to primary care and team-based primary care in the community for people who experienced imprisonment in Ontario, and to compare these attachment data with data for the general population.
Design: Population-based retrospective cohort study.
Setting: Ontario.