In the Veterans Affairs Health Care System, 10.87% of primary care appointments were either missed or canceled on the day of the appointment.

To achieve SDG 3, a comprehensive health care system strengthening approach that includes primary care, district hospitals, and specialty institutions is important for several reasons.

Building on the recommendations of a 1996 report by the Institute of Medicine, the new report, Implementing High-Quality Primary Care: Rebuilding the Foundation of Health Care, provides an ...

Editor’s Note: Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips is a CNN medical analyst. She is the chief clinical officer of Providence, a health system with 51 hospitals in the western US. The opinions expressed ...

A primary care physician is a health manager. They are in clinics, long-term care facilities, private practices, outpatient hospital settings, inpatient hospital settings, and group practices ...

Primary-care groups and health-care policy experts have long contended that the R.U.C.’s choices favor procedures over the counselling, education, and chronic-disease management that form the ...

A solid and enduring relationship with a primary care doctor – who knows a patient’s history and can monitor new problems – has long been regarded as the bedrock of a quality health care ...

Patients’ online access to their primary care electronic health records and linked online services: Implications for research and practice. DOI: . https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26690225/ ...

Here, we explore opportunities to redesign care models given the unique needs of rural communities and policy and payment reforms to scale home-based primary care access. Create a new account Email ...

Instead, he said, the U.S. health care system must address the low pay and lack of support.. And yet, some schools find a way to produce significant proportions of primary care doctors — through ...

The South Florida Sun Sentinel asked readers to share their experiences with primary care providers.Readers responded by email, describing their long wait times and rushed appointments. Some noted ...