ReviewCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2024
Toward a universal definition of provider-patient attachment in primary care.
Review in Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Racial and Social Disparities in Primary Healthcare Access and Wait Times in Canada: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- An Equity-Driven Analysis of the Implications of Attachment and Attachment Readiness Within Primary Care Healthcare Systems in Canada.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Factors influencing the match between patient needs and primary care services: Patient and healthcare provider perspectives from two Canadian provinces.Journal of health services research & policy · 2026Article
- Meeting the primary care needs of communities where they are: mobile primary care clinics, test and try evaluation, Nova Scotia Canada.BMC primary care · 2026Article
- Complexity of medical needs and primary care attachment shape patient experiences with episodic virtual primary care: a mixed methods study in two Canadian provinces.BMC primary care · 2026Article
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- Primary care unattachment: impact on mortality, hospitalizations and costs.Health affairs scholar · 2026Article
- Attachment does not equal access to primary care.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2026Article
- The use of centralized waiting lists for attachment to family physicians in Quebec, Canada: predictive factors and association with non-urgent emergency department use.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- To stay or leave: an integrative review of factors, personas, and recommendations for retaining family physicians in Canada.BMC primary care · 2025Review
- Understanding the experience of clinicians and non-clinical staff in Integrated Virtual Care, a hybrid primary care program in rural Ontario, Canada: a qualitative study.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Of care continuity and brick walls.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2024Article
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Authors and funding
2 authors.
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Abstract
objectiveTo explore definitions of provider-patient attachment in primary care (PC) and help inform a universal definition of provider-patient attachment. DATA SOURCES: Comprehensive searches were conducted using the electronic databases MEDLINE (Ovid), PubMed, CINAHL (EBSCO), PsycInfo (Ovid), Social Sciences Abstracts (EBSCO), Cochrane Library, Scopus, Embase (Ovid), Google Scholar, and ResearchGate. STUDY SELECTION: A scoping review was conducted. Articles focusing on PC setting, provider-patient attachment, and attachment approaches (enrolment, rostering, registration, empanelment) were included. All articles were from English-language publications and were available in full text in or after 2005. Of the 5955 unique titles, 97 peer-reviewed articles and 45 gray literature sources were included. SYNTHESIS: The term
conclusionA universal definition of
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