The impact of the Family Medicine Model on patient satisfaction in Turkey: Panel analysis with province fixed effects.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In this study, we aim to establish the impact of the introduction of the Family Medicine Model patient satisfaction in the Turkish health system.

Methods

We use data on data 69,028 primary health care (PHC) patients over the period 2010-2012. We estimate the impact of the Family Medicine Model in panel regressions with province fixed effects, exploiting the sequential introduction of this health systems transformation across Turkey's 81 provinces. We use principal component analysis to reduce the dimensionality of the data from the European Patients Evaluate General/Family Practice (EUROPEP) patient satisfaction survey, to focus on the fundamental dimensions of patient satisfaction and to decrease the need for multiple hypothesis testing. We identified two key pri

SUBMITTER: Sparkes SP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6353549 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature