ArticleHealthcare policy = Politiques de sante2023
Have Primary Care Renewal Initiatives in Canada Increased Comprehensive Care for Patients with Complex Care Needs? Yes and No.
Article in Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
4 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.
- Exploring caregiver perspectives on health service delivery priorities for individuals with complex care needs: a qualitative descriptive study.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Connecting Health and Social Services for Patients with Complex Care Needs: A Pan-Canadian Comparative Policy Research Program.Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante · 2023Article
- Inconsistent Governance Structures for Health and Social Services Limit Service Integration for Patients with Complex Care Needs.Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante · 2023Article
- Integrating Health and Social Care for Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Description of 16 Canadian Programs.Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The First Ministers Health Accords of 2001 through 2003 (Health Canada 2006) launched the renewal of primary care toward more comprehensive care delivery models. We scanned government websites in the 10 Canadian provinces to assess how comprehensive and integrated renewal models were for health and social services in 2018. More comprehensive primary care delivery models were the norm in five out of 10 provinces. The policy approaches were: (1) expanding traditional family practice; (2) creating primary care networks; and (3) increasing the number of community health centres, which provide the broadest range of health and social care. Integration initiatives were limited to medical services. Additional financial and policy investments will be required to meet the comprehensive needs of patients with complex health and social needs at a system level.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.