PURPOSE Providing care in alternative (non-office) locations and outside office hours are
important elements of access and comprehensiveness of primary care. We examined the …

PURPOSE Compared with other high-income countries, Canada and the United States have
among the highest rates of emergency department use and the lowest rates of primary care …

One goal of the Affordable Care Act is to improve patients' access to primary care and the
coordination of that care. An important ingredient in achieving that goal is ensuring that …

OBJECTIVE To determine family physicians' availability to their general practice patients
after hours and to explore the characteristics and determinants of after-hours services …

Background: Challenges in timely access to one's usual primary care physician and the
ongoing use of walk-in clinics have been major health policy issues in Ontario for over a …

BACKGROUND: Access to primary care outside of regular working hours is limited in many
countries. This study investigates the relation between the after-hours premium, an incentive …

Introduction: New models of primary healthcare delivery recently implemented in Ontario are
designed to improve after-hours accessibility. This study examined whether the six-month …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Despite expectations that medical homes provide “24× 7
coverage” there is little to guide primary care practices in developing sustainable models for …

PURPOSE A key component of primary care improvement efforts is timely access to care;
however, little is known regarding the effects of extended (evening and weekend) office …

Introduction It is believed that some patients are more likely to use out-of-hours primary care
services because of difficulties in accessing in-hours care, but substantial evidence about …