Patient Assignment to Primary Health Care Providers

本项目致力于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名新病人，该人将被分配到医生名单中；否则，他/她应该咨询其他医生或留在等待名单上。这种做法可能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，患者可能会放弃寻找家庭医生或等待几天才能得到医生的探访。这一举措符合安大略省政府通过建立患者护理小组(PCGs)实施新的初级保健模式的决定。适当实施PCG模式可以改善向安大略省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。为了更好地了解PCG模式并为其实施提供明确的指导方针，Homecare Intelligence Canada(一家基于技术的软件解决方案提供商)及其学术合作伙伴(Ryerson University)已开始合作开展该项目。这项拟议的研究项目的主要目标是了解这种新的初级护理交付模式的后勤含义。

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.