… Dr Kiran, Ms Davie, Ms Hranilovic, Dr Pinto, and Dr Lofters designed the study. Ms Davie,
Mr Singh, and Ms Hranilovic were involved in the data collection. Ms Davie conducted the …

Background: There is good evidence that cancer-specific patient outreach improves rates of
cervical, breast, and colorectal cancer screening. However, it is unclear how primary care …

Our Family Health Team is located in Toronto, Canada and provides care to over 35 000
patients. Like many practices in Canada, we took an opportunistic approach to cervical, breast, …

Continuity and timely access are hallmarks of high-quality primary care and are important
considerations for urgent concerns that present both during the day and after-hours. It can be …

Embracing practice-based quality improvement (QI) represents one way for clinicians to
improve the care they provide to patients while also improving their own professional satisfaction…

Engaging patients is essential to advancing quality improvement in primary care, but there
are many barriers to effective engagement including time, money, and the representativeness …

Objective To understand disparities in primary care patient experience. Design A serial
cross-sectional study was conducted to understand disparities in patient experience at 2 time …

BACKGROUND: For people with mental illness (psychiatric survivors), seeking and securing
employment involves personal, social, and environmental factors. In Canada, psychiatric …

Background Improving timely access in primary care is a continued challenge in many countries.
We used positive deviance to try and identify best practices for achieving timely access …

This study explored migration, homelessness, and health among psychiatric survivors in
northern and southern Ontario, Canada to identify differences between these two groups and to …