2017
DOI: 10.1370/afm.2078
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The Chief Primary Care Medical Officer: Restoring Continuity

Abstract: The year 2016 marked the 20th anniversary of the hospitalist profession, with more than 50,000 physicians identifying as hospitalists. The Achilles heel of hospitalist medicine, however, is discontinuity. Despite many current payment and delivery systems rewarding this discontinuity and severing long-term relationships between patient and primary care teams at the hospital door, primary care does not stop being important when a person is admitted to the hospital. The notion of a broken primary care continuum i… Show more

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“…Most articles used qualitative methods, several combined with quantitative research approaches, some used quantitative methods as surveys or questionnaires and a few articles were reviews or opinion papers. Six articles could not be fully scored due to the methods used in the article (opinion/discussion papers) [ 29 , 32 , 44 , 45 , 55 , 61 ], so no CAS was assigned. Two articles scored ‘yes’ on all questions of the critical appraisal tool, resulting in a maximum CAS of 12 [ 27 , 63 ].…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Most articles used qualitative methods, several combined with quantitative research approaches, some used quantitative methods as surveys or questionnaires and a few articles were reviews or opinion papers. Six articles could not be fully scored due to the methods used in the article (opinion/discussion papers) [ 29 , 32 , 44 , 45 , 55 , 61 ], so no CAS was assigned. Two articles scored ‘yes’ on all questions of the critical appraisal tool, resulting in a maximum CAS of 12 [ 27 , 63 ].…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Several articles [ 22 24 , 26 , 29 , 37 , 40 , 42 , 43 , 45 – 47 , 49 , 50 , 53 , 56 , 60 , 61 , 63 ](2 with a low CAS and 3 with no CAS) mentioned the importance of knowledge about the partners in collaboration, their contexts and how this influences the way they work.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The role disruption contributes to communication disruption between primary care providers, specialists and hospitalists and between nurses, patients and their providers. [18,19] The evolution of roles and how these affect team practice, communication and collaboration are important considerations because of the context it creates for role understanding. These factors can strike biases between professions that are unintended and even unconscious.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For instance, though the ACA promotes the relationship between hospital and community services on behalf of the patient and the continuity of care, by doing so, it disrupts traditional roles and how they function. [18] Through decades interdisciplinary teams have functioned in hospital settings with varying degrees of success, but it is unlikely that existing teams have performed at the expected level of Core Competency 2, once again modifying self and other professions' role-perceptions.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They propose that every hospital needs a Chief Primary Care Medical Officer who is expert in practice across the spectrum of care. 12 Recent cervical cancer screening guideline changes in Ontario are associated with reduced chlamydia testing and reduced reported chlamydia incidence for young women. Chlamydia incidence remains the same for males, despite increased chlamydia testing.…”
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confidence: 99%