Does attachment to a family physician reduce emergency department visits? A difference-in-differences analysis of Quebec’s centralized waiting lists for unattached patients

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background Patients without a regular primary care provider – unattached patients – are more likely to visit hospital emergency departments (ED), leading to poor patient and health system outcomes. In many Canadian provinces, policy responses to improve primary care access and reduce ED utilization of unattached patients have included centralized waiting lists to help find a primary ca...

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Literature Corpus work

30791837-2cba-5d32-a659-537851f5a5c3

DOI

10.21203/rs.3.rs-3338608/v1