ReviewScientifica2012
The impact of primary care: a focused review.
Review in Scientifica, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05534412 (A Practice-Based Intervention To Improve Care for a Diverse Population Of Women With Urinary Incontinence), which is not on this map. Cited by 268 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
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The trial behind it
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A Practice-Based Intervention To Improve Care for a Diverse Population Of Women With Urinary Incontinence
Who cites it
268 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A systematic review of consumers' knowledge, attitudes and experiences of primary health professionals' role in genomic medicine.European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2025Pooled it
- Barriers and facilitators of accessing primary healthcare for patients with severe mental illness: a mixed-methods systematic review using framework synthesis.BMC psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Barriers and Facilitators to the Implementation of Digital Health Services for People With Musculoskeletal Conditions in the Primary Health Care Setting: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Pooled it
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- Barriers and facilitators to clinical behaviour change by primary care practitioners: a theory-informed systematic review of reviews using the Theoretical Domains Framework and Behaviour Change Wheel.Systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Recruiting Rural Patients for Clinical Research: Lessons From a Colorectal Cancer Screening Trial.The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2026Trial
- Association between housing status and mental health and substance use severity among individuals with opioid use disorder and co-occurring depression and/or PTSD.BMC primary care · 2025Trial
- Food insecurity is associated with greater difficulty accessing care among people living with HIV with or without comorbid non-communicable diseases in western Kenya.BMJ global health · 2024Trial
- Low rates of prescribing alcohol relapse prevention medicines in Australian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services.Drug and alcohol review · 2023Trial
- Examining Access to Primary Care for People With Opioid Use Disorder in Ontario, Canada: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2022Trial
- Early exposure to a primary care course: a co-created transformative approach in health systems science.Medical education online · 2026Review
- CPS-Net (Collaborating Physicians in Silico Network): A Decentralized Multi-Agent Transformer Framework for Specialty-Aware Disease Prediction.Journal of medical systems · 2026Article
- Implementation of Models of Service Delivery Designed for the Management of People With Hip and/or Knee Osteoarthritis in Primary Care: A Scoping Review Protocol.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2026Article
- The Experience of General Internal Medicine Research Fellows and Program Directors: Results from a National Survey.Journal of general internal medicine · 2026Article
- The Reliability of Biomechanical Mensuration Methods of the Sagittal Cervical Spine in Radiography Used in Clinical Practice: A Systematic Review of the Literature.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
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- Knowledge of Complementary Medicine and Therapies Among Family Physicians and the General Population in Saudi Arabia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- [Validity of Starfield́s model in the chronic care strategies of the Canary Islands (2015-2024)].Atencion primaria · 2026Article
- Assessing connection to outpatient care among patients screening positive for previously undiagnosed diabetes in the emergency department: a combined retrospective cohort and prospective cohort survey study.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- The Effect of Medicaid Expansion on Racial/Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Access to Primary Care among Medicaid Patients.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
208 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
1 author.
Funding
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Abstract
Primary care serves as the cornerstone in a strong healthcare system. However, it has long been overlooked in the United States (USA), and an imbalance between specialty and primary care exists. The objective of this focused review paper is to identify research evidence on the value of primary care both in the USA and internationally, focusing on the importance of effective primary care services in delivering quality healthcare, improving health outcomes, and reducing disparities. Literature searches were performed in PubMed as well as "snowballing" based on the bibliographies of the retrieved articles. The areas reviewed included primary care definitions, primary care measurement, primary care practice, primary care and health, primary care and quality, primary care and cost, primary care and equity, primary care and health centers, and primary care and healthcare reform. In both developed and developing countries, primary care has been demonstrated to be associated with enhanced access to healthcare services, better health outcomes, and a decrease in hospitalization and use of emergency department visits. Primary care can also help counteract the negative impact of poor economic conditions on health.
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