Associations of types of primary care facilities with adult vaccination and cancer screening in Japan

ConclusionsDifferences in the performance of adult vaccination and cancer screening raised concerns about the provision of preventive care at hospital-based compared with clinic-based primary care practices. Efforts to improve preventive care at hospital-based primary care practices should help to promote equalization of the quality of primary care. Further study is needed on the comparisons of other quality indicators among different structures of primary care facilities.
Source: International Journal for Quality in Health Care - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research