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A "Shock Test" to Primary Care Integration: COVID-19 Lessons from Alberta.
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- Ten pressure points in primary care during COVID-19: findings from an international narrative review.BMC primary care · 2025Pooled it
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- The Effect of Coronavirus Disease 2019 on the Quality of Associated Care in Patients with Gastric Cancer.Middle East journal of digestive diseases · 2024Review
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- Family physicians' responses to personal protective equipment shortages in four regions in Canada: a qualitative study.BMC primary care · 2023Article
- The primary care COVID-19 integrated pathway: a rapid response to health and social impacts of COVID-19.BMC primary care · 2022Article
- Considering context: Adaptive elements of a simulation program to improve primary care safety during the COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta, Canada.American journal of infection control · 2022Article
- Confronting Barriers to Improving Healthcare Performance in Canada.Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante · 2021Article
- Thinking and Enacting the Patient Medical Home Under Pandemic Conditions: A Qualitative Study From Primary Care in Alberta, Canada.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
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- Building a Data Bridge: Policies, Structures, and Governance Integrating Primary Care Into the Public Health Response to COVID-19.Annals of family medicineArticle
- Improving Conversations With COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitant Patients: Action Research to Support Family Physicians.Annals of family medicineArticle
- Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Primary Care Utilization: An Analysis of Primary Care Claims Data in Alberta, Canada.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed primary care (PC), and policies aimed at integrating it into provincial health systems, to a "shock test." This paper draws on documentary analysis and qualitative interviews with PC and health system stakeholders to examine shifts in Alberta's pre-pandemic PC integration model during the first nine months of the pandemic. We begin with an account of three elements of the province's pre-pandemic model: finance, health authority activity and community activity. We describe these elements as they shifted, focusing on two indicators of change: novel virtual care billing codes and personal protective equipment (PPE) distribution channels. We draw out policy planning lessons for improving PC integration under normal and future pandemic conditions, namely, by facilitating rapid updates of virtual care billing codes, analyses of the impact of care delivery and backstopping of PPE markets and supply chains for PC.
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