Defining and measuring full service family practice in BC, 1991-2006 /

Founded in 2003, the GPSC is a joint committee composed of the BC Ministry of Health, the BC Medical Association, and the Society of General Practitioners of BC. [...] Founded in 2003, These four features are consistent with an earlier US the GPSC is a joint committee composed of the BC Institute of Medicine definition of primary care as “the Ministry of Health, the BC Medical Association, and provision of integrated, accessible health care services the Society of General Practitioners of BC. [...] The authors • The future use of information technology systems determined an ‘expected proportion of codings’ using as they become available to further enhance the the actual distribution of each of the 27 groups in co-ordination and provision of patient care. [...] Wong and Stewart used the 2001 National physicians are responsible for the full range of primary Family Physician Workforce Survey to identify factors care functions, providing comprehensive, continuous, associated with the scope of practice of FPs in office- and patient-centered care, and serving as the first based practice, based on 12 historically provided point of contact between a patient and [...] The extent to which We adopt the definition of FSFP articulated as part of family physicians practice within this model, their char- the GPSC primary care policies in this analysis, and acteristics, and how provision of FSFP changed over classify elements according to Starfield’s four features of time remain unknown.