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Dec 5, 2024 | 
cfp.ca | Nicholas Pimlott |Brian Hutchison
On Friday, August 16, 2024, 3 days before he died, Dr Brian Hutchison kindly agreed to sit down with me virtually for this interview. Brian co-authored a research article in the May issue of Canadian Family Physician entitled “Assessing the impact of Canadian primary care research and researchers. Citation analysis,”1 which has been widely read.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
cfp.ca | Brian Hutchison |Merrick Zwarenstein
Early in his research career in South Africa, Dr Merrick Zwarenstein witnessed how the discriminatory policies of apartheid affected health care delivery and patterns of illness in that country. His interest in social justice led him to work in disadvantaged communities and to focus on the power of using data to evaluate practical solutions to difficult health care problems.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
cfp.ca | Brian Hutchison |Brian Rowe
American race-car driver Bobby Unser said, “Success is where preparation and opportunity meet,” and with that attitude he won the Indianapolis 500 a total of 3 times as part of his illustrious career.1 This sentiment rings true to Dr Brian Rowe, Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, whose hard work and collaboration with influential mentors resulted in a rewarding career in primary care research.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
cfp.ca | Brian Hutchison |France Légaré
The concept of shared decision making in medicine gained prominence in the 1980s, prompting researchers to explore its patient care benefits.1 Yet exactly how shared decision making may lead to better patient outcomes and how this approach is applied have received less attention.1 Questions about barriers to and facilitators of shared decision making have driven the research career of Dr France Légaré, a professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Laval University...
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
cfp.ca | Brian Hutchison |Dave Davis
Greek philosopher Plutarch has been quoted as having said “education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”1 This seems a fitting characterization of the work of Dr Dave Davis, whose interest in learning led to a distinguished research career focused on continuing medical education (CME) and knowledge translation.
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May 14, 2024 | 
cfp.ca | Brian Hutchison |Moira Stewart
Research conducted in primary care settings by family physicians and primary care colleagues is essential to building and enhancing the evidence base that informs health care delivery in Canada.1 Rooting this work in everyday experiences on the front lines of care serves to strengthen the discipline and to support practice improvement initiatives.1 In this issue of Canadian Family Physician, Aggarwal et al examine the considerable impact that Canadian primary care researchers have had despite...
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May 14, 2024 | 
cfp.ca | Monica Aggarwal |Brian Hutchison |Sabrina Wong
High-performing primary care (PC) is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of effective and efficient health care systems.1,2 Herein, primary care is defined as an [i]nclusive term to cover the spectrum of first-contact healthcare models from those whose focus is comprehensive, person-centered care, sustained over time, to those that also incorporate health promotion, community development and intersectoral action to address the social determinants of health.1,3 In 2008, the World Health...
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Monica Aggarwal |Brian Hutchison |Reham Abdelhalim |G. Ross Baker
An effective and efficient health care system relies on building a foundation of high-performing primary care (PC).1 Patient access to a patient-centered medical home (i.e., a single centralized source of care and medical record)2, 3 providing first-contact care that is person-focused over time, comprehensive, and coordinated is associated with better individual and population health, lower care costs, and reduced health inequality.4-7 High-quality PC is defined as “the provision of...
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Jun 19, 2023 | 
bmjopen.bmj.com | Monica Aggarwal |Brian Hutchison |Kristina Marie Kokorelias |Kavita Mehta
DesignWe will conduct a rapid scoping review46 guided using the Arksey and O’Malley framework47 and subsequent guidance from Levac et al,48 Colquhoun et al49 and Daudt et al50 to systematically identify and map key concepts and sources of evidence in the peer-reviewed and indexed literature.
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Jan 25, 2023 | 
annfammed.org | Steve Slade |Brian Hutchison
AbstractContext: Canada under-invests in research related to primary care. Most Canadians (86%) have a regular care provider and family physicians deliver 54% of all medical services. However, primary care research accounts for less than 3% of grant funding within Canada’s largest health research funding agency, the Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR). This disconnect calls for further study of primary care research investment.
