Patient Assignment to Primary Health Care Providers

该项目探讨了确定如何在加拿大安大略省设计和实施有效的初级卫生保健服务的重要性。在目前的实践中，个人必须自己寻找家庭医生。如果医生有足够的能力接收一个新病人，这个人就会被列入医生名单；否则，他/她应该与其他医生核对或留在等候名单上。这种做法会给医生带来不同的工作量，也会给患者带来一些问题，例如，患者可能需要寻找家庭医生，或者等上几天才能见到医生。这一举措符合安大略省政府的决定，即通过建立病人护理小组（pcg）来实施一种新的初级保健模式。适当实施PCG模式可以改善向安大略人提供的初级保健服务。然而，目前关于pcg模式及其实施的指导方针有限。为了更好地理解PCG模型并为其实施提供明确的指导方针，加拿大家庭护理智能公司（一家基于技术的软件解决方案提供商）与其学术合作伙伴（瑞尔森大学）合作开始了该项目的工作。该研究项目的主要目标是了解这种初级保健新模式的后勤影响。

This project addresses the importance of determining how an efficient primary healthcare delivery can bedesigned and implemented in Ontario, Canada. In the current practice, an individual must search for a familyphysician on their own. If the physician has enough capacity to take a new patient, that individual is assigned tothe physician's list; otherwise, he/she should check with other physicians or stay on the waitlist. This practicecan create different workloads for physicians and also result in a few issues for patients, e.g., patients may beleft searching for a family physician or waiting a few days to be visited by their physician.This initiative is in accordance to the Ontario Government's decision to implement a new primary care modelthrough the establishment of the Patient Care Groups (PCGs). A proper implementation of the PCG model canimprove the primary healthcare delivery to Ontarians. However, there is currently limited guidelines on thePCG model and its implementation. To provide a better understanding of the PCG model and a clear guidelineon its implementation, Homecare Intelligence Canada (a technology-based software solution provider) and itsacademic partner (Ryerson University) have collaboratively started work on this project. The main goal of theproposed research project is to understand the logistical implications of this new model of primary caredelivery.