ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2015
Do people with disabilities have difficulty finding a family physician?
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- Examining Access to Primary Care for People With Opioid Use Disorder in Ontario, Canada: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2022Trial
- Effect of Instant Messaging-Based Integrated Healthcare on Medical Service Use and Care Outcomes in Patients with Disabilities.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Signing contracts for family doctors, functional limitations and home care willingness among older adults: a cross-sectional study.BMC primary care · 2024Article
- Health System's Role in Facilitating Health Service Access among Persons with Spinal Cord Injury across 22 Countries.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Healthcare service utilization patterns and patient experience in persons with spinal cord injury: a comparison across 22 countries.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Inequities in access to primary care among opioid recipients in Ontario, Canada: A population-based cohort study.PLoS medicine · 2021Article
- Delivering disability competencies of MCI's revised competency based curriculum at a medical university in North Karnataka.Medical journal, Armed Forces India · 2021Article
- Preventive care among primary care patients living with spinal cord injury.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2019Article
- Accepting new patients who require opioids into family practice: results from the MAAP-NS census survey study.BMC family practice · 2019Article
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Abstract
Primary care has been ideally characterized as the medical home for all citizens, and yet recent data shows that approximately 6% do not have a family physician, and only 17.5% of family practices are open to new patients. Given acknowledged shortages of family physicians, this research asks the question: Do people with disabilities have particular difficulty finding a family physician? Health Care Connect (HCC) is a government-funded agency in Ontario Canada, designed to "help Ontarians who are without a family health care provider to find one". Using data from HCC, supplemented by interviews with HCC staff, the study explores the average wait time for patients with disabilities to be linked with a primary care physician, and the challenges faced by agency staff in doing so. The study found that disabled registrants with the program are only slightly disadvantaged in terms of wait times to find a family physician, and success rates are ultimately comparable; however, agency staff report that there are a number of significant challenges associated with placing disabled patients.
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