Canadian family physician Médecin de famille canadien
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Multicenter Study
Evaluating the implementation of collaborative teams in community family practice using the Primary Care Assessment Tool.
To examine patients' perceptions of care outcomes following the introduction of collaborative teams into community family practices. ⋯ This study found that WPCN provides high-quality primary care overall, but that patient-perceived outcomes do not indicate global improvement concurrent with team-based initiatives. Decreased standardization of the distributed model likely influenced study-observed variations in clinic performance. Future research should identify clinic and team characteristics that benefit most from team-based care and factors that explain solo practices outperforming models of team-based care.