Effect of primary health care reforms in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador: Interrupted time-series analysis.

CONCLUSION: Primary health care reforms in Newfoundland and Labrador had no observed effect on ACS hospitalization rates, but a potential effect might have been masked by a decreasing trend that preceded the introduction of reforms. The increase in mortality rates that was reversed after the introduction of reforms cannot be attributed to the reforms because it occurred in all studied populations including those that did not introduce reforms.
PMID: 31300443 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Canadian Family Physician Medecin de Famille Canadien - June 30, 2019 Category: Primary Care Authors: Knight JC, Moineddin R, Mathews M, Aubrey-Bassler K Tags: Can Fam Physician Source Type: research