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Understanding Barriers and Facilitators of Primary Care Use Among Assertive Community Treatment Teams Via Qualitative Analysis of Clients and Clinicians
Individuals with severe mental illness and substance use disorders face complex barriers to achieving physical health. This study aims to explore the...
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How do nurses support chronically ill clients’ participation and self-management in primary care? A cross-country qualitative study
BackgroundIn the context of the advancement of person-centered care models, the promotion of the participation of patients with chronic illness and...
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The hospital-to-home care transition experience of home care clients: an exploratory study using patient journey map**
BackgroundCare transitions have a significant impact on patient health outcomes and care experience. However, there is limited research on how...
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Key person-centered care domains for residential substance use disorder treatment facilities: former clients’ perspectives
BackgroundWhile person-centered care (PCC) includes multiple domains, residential substance use disorder (SUD) treatment clients may value certain...
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Comparing quality indicator rates for home care clients receiving palliative and end-of-life care before and during the Covid-19 pandemic
BackgroundThe consensus among Canadians with regards to end-of-life preferences is that with adequate support the majority prefer to live and die at...
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Access to primary health care: perspectives of primary care physicians and community stakeholders
BackgroundAction on the social determinants of health is important to strengthen primary health care and promote access among underserved...
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Inter-provincial variation in older home care clients and their pathways: a population-based retrospective cohort study in Canada
BackgroundIn Canada, publicly-funded home care programs enable older adults to remain and be cared for in their home for as long as possible but they...
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Development and validation of risk of CPS decline (RCD): a new prediction tool for worsening cognitive performance among home care clients in Canada
BackgroundTo develop and validate a prediction tool, or nomogram, for the risk of a decline in cognitive performance based on the interRAI Cognitive...
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Classifying home care clients’ risk of unplanned hospitalization with the resident assessment instrument
PurposeTo identify predictive case finding tools for classifying the risk of unplanned hospitalization among home care clients utilizing the Resident...
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Secondary distribution of HIV self-test kits by HIV index and antenatal care clients: implementation and costing results from the STAR Initiative in South Africa
BackgroundPartner-delivered HIV self-testing kits has previously been highlighted as a safe, acceptable and effective approach to reach men. However,...
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Primary health care response to noncommunicable diseases: an assessment of Wellness Clinics in Ghana
BackgroundGlobally, there is a significant unmet need for the rapidly growing burden of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). Ghana has adopted and...
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Perceptions and outcomes of an embedded Alzheimer Society First Link Coordinator in rural primary health care memory clinics
BackgroundPrimary health care has a central role in dementia detection, diagnosis, and management, especially in low-resource rural areas. Care...
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The association between receipt of home care rehabilitation services and acute care hospital utilization in clients with multimorbidity following an acute care unit discharge: a retrospective cohort study
BackgroundIndividuals experiencing multimorbidity have more complex healthcare needs, use more healthcare services, and access multiple service...
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Helpful and Harmful Approaches to Integrating Religion and Spirituality into Mental Health Care: A National Survey of Current Clients’ Experiences in the United States
This article describes a national sample of 989 current mental health clients’ views regarding whether and how their mental health care providers...
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Strengthening primary care for diabetes and hypertension in Eswatini: study protocol for a nationwide cluster-randomized controlled trial
BackgroundDiabetes and hypertension are increasingly important population health challenges in Eswatini. Prior to this project, healthcare for these...
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Home care practice behavior and its influencing factors of primary care providers: a multicenter cross-sectional study in Sichuan Province, China
BackgroundPrimary care providers play an important role in home health care, and their practice behavior is significant for care quality and patient...
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Client predictors of therapy dropout in a primary care setting: a prospective cohort study
BackgroundTherapy dropout poses a major challenge. Considerable research has been conducted on predictors of dropout, however none in the context of...
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Barriers to primary care among immigrants and refugees in Peterborough, Ontario: a qualitative study of provider perspectives
BackgroundCanada’s immigrants and refugees have often settled in large Canadian cities, but this is changing with rising costs of living and rural...
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Ultrasound-guided phlebotomy in primary care for people who inject drugs
ObjectivesPersons who inject drugs (PWID) commonly experience venous degradation as a complication of prolonged injection, which makes routine...
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Study protocol of a mixed method pragmatic quasi-experimental trial to evaluate the day activity services targeted at older home care clients in Finland
BackgroundIn Finland, the ‘day activity service’ is targeted at older home care clients who are unable to participate in other available activities...
