Monica Aggarwal

Oct 15, 2024 | cfp.ca | Monica Aggarwal |Richard H. Glazier

The continuous, longitudinal relationship between regular primary care providers (PCPs) and their patients is a key attribute of high-performing primary care (PC) systems.1,2 Patients with a regular family physician receive more preventive services and chronic disease management3-5; having a regular family physician reduces the use of walk-in clinics and emergency departments (EDs), decreases hospitalizations, and facilitates more cost-effective care.6-11 Continuity of care is associated with...

Aug 12, 2024 | thelancet.com | Monica Aggarwal |Sabrina Wong

Research in contextData sources for the statements made in this introduction and discussion include a literature review conducted in PubMed. We reviewed the literature on the influence of gender, race, and parenthood on research productivity. The search terms included “research productivity” AND “gender”, “race”, “discrimination”, “parenthood”, AND “primary care research productivity”. Our search was limited to published articles from 2000 to 2023 and we identified 3456 studies.

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...

Nov 8, 2023 | bmjopen.bmj.com | Monica Aggarwal |Kristina Marie Kokorelias |Sabrina Wong

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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...