Results (PbR) is a tool for paying for health activity. It may create perverse incentives so that
it appears financially beneficial to admit the patient rather than to manage them outside the …

The Government White Paper on improving community health and care services (Our
Health, Our Care, Our Say) proposes shifting care within particular specialties from hospital …

Primary care physicians were supposed to lead this patient-centered model. Now specialists
want in, too. Good idea?

The past decade has been marked by a global awaken-ing to the important contribution
primary care makes to better health outcomes. Research clearly shows that the better the …

• Our system often fails when patients move from one part of the system to another–from GP
to specialist, from home to long-term care, from hospital to home.• Not alone–OECD & EU …

Recent efforts to improve primary care in the United States have focused largely on the
development and implementation of practice models and payment reforms intended to …

Objectives: Hospital at home (HAH) care is becoming increasingly popular in France and
requires the involvement of general practitioners (GPs) in the care of their patients. The …

Alone in the office with the patient, attempting to solve the problems he brings to me, I
sometimes envy my colleagues at the hospital. Seen from the aspect of the one-to-one …

The model is flexible, and no two FHTs are the same. A typical practice includes at least
seven family physicians and a multidisciplinary team that provides a broad range of services …

The train has left the station. Everyone is on board: health policy leaders both public, like the
Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), and …