Adapting care provision in family practice during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study exploring the impact of primary care reforms in four Canadian regions ...

Abstract Background Over the past two decades, Canadian provinces and territories have introduced a series of primary care reforms in an attempt to improve access to and quality of primary care services, resulting in diverse organizational structures and practice models. We examine the impact of the...

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Main Authors: Mathews, Maria, Hedden, Lindsay, Lukewich, Julia, Marshall, Emily Gard, Meredith, Leslie, Moritz, Lauren, Ryan, Dana, Spencer, Sarah, Brown, Judith B., Gill, Paul S., Wong, Eric K. W.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: figshare 2024
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.7169599.v1
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Summary:Abstract Background Over the past two decades, Canadian provinces and territories have introduced a series of primary care reforms in an attempt to improve access to and quality of primary care services, resulting in diverse organizational structures and practice models. We examine the impact of these reforms on family physicians’ (FPs) ability to adapt their roles during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the provision of routine primary care. Methods As part of a larger case study, we conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with FPs in four Canadian regions: British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Ontario. During the interviews, participants were asked about their personal and practice characteristics, the pandemic-related roles they performed over different stages of the pandemic, the facilitators and barriers they experienced in performing these roles, and potential roles FPs could have filled. Interviews were transcribed and a thematic analysis approach was applied to ...