Primary care

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Journal Articles

Journal Article

03/11/2025

Distance to primary care and its association with health care use and quality of care in Ontario: a cross-sectional study

Gupta A, Kiran T, Pablo LA, Pinto A, Frymire E, Gozdyra P, Khan S, Green ME, Glazier RH. CMAJ. 2025; 197: E1214-23.

Journal Article

22/10/2025

Physician payment models and preventive cancer screening: a population-based retrospective cohort analysis from Ontario, Canada

Bai Y, Devlin RA, Habbous S, Jaakkimainen L, Sarma S. Fam Pract. 2025; 42(6):cmaf076.

Journal Article

07/07/2025

Early psychosis symptoms noted by family physicians in electronic medical records during help-seeking visits in primary care

Wiener JC, Rodrigues R, Reid JNS, Archie S, Jan SH, MacDougall AG, Palaniyappan L, Jaakkimainen L, Chen B, Sawh N, Anderson KK; project co-investigators. Can J Psychiatry. 2025 Jul 7 [Epub ahead of print].

Journal Article

16/06/2025

Trends colliding: aging comprehensive family physicians and the growing complexity of their patients

Premji K, Glazier RH, Green ME, Khan S, Schultz S, Mathews M, Nastos S, Frymire E, Ryan BL. Can Fam Physician. 2025; Jun 16.

Journal Article

01/06/2025

Association of primary care continuity with home dialysis, transplantation, and utilization of medical services for patients starting hemodialysis

Wyman CS, Djerboua M, Clemens KK, Harel Z, Sood MM, Silver SA. Kidney Med. 2025; 7(6):101015. Epub 2025 Apr 29.

Journal Article

27/05/2025

Family physicians in focused practice in Ontario, Canada: a population-level study of trends from 1993/1994 through 2021/2022

Ansari H, Glazier RH, Schultz SE, Green ME, Premji K, Frymire E, Daneshvarfard M, Jaakkimainen L, Kiran T. Ann Fam Med. 2025; 23(3):181-190.

Journal Article

01/05/2025

Practice facilitation to support primary care physicians with COVID-19 vaccine uptake: a randomized clinical trial

Shuldiner J, Shah NH, Bar-Ziv S, Kaplan, D, Green M, Bahniwal R, Bogoch, Nowak DA, Desveaux L, Taljaard M, Presseau J, Witteman H, Lofters A, Kiran T, Mauti J, Gill S, Chistie J, Tsang D, Tradrous M, Warshafsky D, Hu J, Vohra-Miller S, Ivers N. JAMA Netw Open. 2025; 8(5):e259967. Epub 2025 May 1.

Journal Article

28/04/2025

Association between primary care physicians’ practice models and referral rates to specialists: a sex-based cross-sectional study

Rahman B, Kirkwood D, Babe G, Griffith LE, Price D, Correia RH, Dash D, Lapointe-Shaw L, Costa AP. PLoS One. 2025; 20(4):e0322175.

Journal Article

26/04/2025

Primary care physician involvement increases likelihood of cancer screening in people with cystic fibrosis: a population-based study from Ontario, Canada

Stephenson AL, Sharpe I, Sykes J, Ma X, Li P, Stanojevic S, Quon BS, Cheng SY, Rochon PA. J Cyst Fibros. 2025; S1569-1993(25)00770-2. Epub 2025 Apr 26.

Journal Article

15/04/2025

Defining and evaluating the impact of physician commitment to nursing home practice: a population-level cross-sectional study

Dash D, Kirkwood D, Siu HY, Katz PR, Jones AT, Rahman B, Stall NM, Tanuseputro P, Robert B, Costa AP. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2025 Apr 15 [Epub ahead of print.]

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News Releases

News Release

03/11/2025

Longer distances to family physician has negative effect on access to health care

Living farther than 30 km from a family physician can negatively affect access to health care, found a new Ontario study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

News Release

16/06/2025

More family doctors near retirement, raising concern about future of primary care

News Release

24/06/2024

Health care delivered in a patient’s preferred language could decrease emergency department visits, hospitalizations and death

News Release

27/12/2023

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Primary care

Journal Articles

Distance to primary care and its association with health care use and quality of care in Ontario: a cross-sectional study

Physician payment models and preventive cancer screening: a population-based retrospective cohort analysis from Ontario, Canada

Early psychosis symptoms noted by family physicians in electronic medical records during help-seeking visits in primary care

Trends colliding: aging comprehensive family physicians and the growing complexity of their patients

Association of primary care continuity with home dialysis, transplantation, and utilization of medical services for patients starting hemodialysis

Family physicians in focused practice in Ontario, Canada: a population-level study of trends from 1993/1994 through 2021/2022

Practice facilitation to support primary care physicians with COVID-19 vaccine uptake: a randomized clinical trial

Association between primary care physicians’ practice models and referral rates to specialists: a sex-based cross-sectional study

Primary care physician involvement increases likelihood of cancer screening in people with cystic fibrosis: a population-based study from Ontario, Canada

Defining and evaluating the impact of physician commitment to nursing home practice: a population-level cross-sectional study

News Releases

Longer distances to family physician has negative effect on access to health care

More family doctors near retirement, raising concern about future of primary care

Health care delivered in a patient’s preferred language could decrease emergency department visits, hospitalizations and death

Virtual care works best when patients see their own family doctor, study finds

Patients attending virtual walk-in clinics are twice as likely to visit the emergency department

Is virtual care effective in treating patients with transient ischemic attack or minor stroke?

Number of family doctors stopping practice in Ontario doubled early in pandemic, study shows

Pre-pregnancy emergency department use and risk of severe maternal and neonatal outcomes

Construction workers disproportionately impacted by opioid-related deaths, report finds

Researchers find no difference in rate of childhood diabetes in Ontario during COVID-19 pandemic

Research Programs and appointed ICES Scientists