Team-based innovations in primary care delivery in Quebec and timely physician follow-up after hospital discharge: a population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Outpatient follow-up has been a key intervention point in addressing gaps in care after hospital discharge. We sought to estimate the association between enrolment in new team-based primary care practices and 30-day postdischarge physician follow-up among older patients and patients with chronic illnesses who were admitted to hospital in Quebec, Canada.

Methods

Patients were selected into this cohort if a primary care physician enrolled them as a "vulnerable patient" between November 2002 and January 2005. Data for this analysis included province-wide health insurance claims for inpatient and outpatient services delivered between November 2002 and January 2009 in Quebec. The primary analysis examined time to the first outpatient postdischarge follow-up service pro

SUBMITTER: Riverin BD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5378533 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature