"Patient Lost to Follow-up": Opportunities and Challenges in Delivering Primary Care in Academic Medical Centers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Academic health centers (AHCs) face unique challenges in providing continuity to a medically and socially complex patient population. Little is known about what drives patient loss in these settings.

Objective

Determine physician- and patient-based factors associated with patient loss in AHCs.

Design

Retrospective cohort study, embedded qualitative analysis.

Setting

Academic health center.

Participants

All visits from 7/1/2014 to 6/30/2019; 89 physicians (51%) participated in a qualitative analysis.

Measures

Physician-based factors (gender, years of service, hours of practice per week, trainee status, and departure during the study period) and patient-based factors (age, gender, race, limited English proficiency, public health insurance

SUBMITTER: Amat M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9411305 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature