ArticleCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2024
Characteristics of walk-in clinic physicians and patients in Ontario: Cross-sectional study.
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- Racial and Social Disparities in Primary Healthcare Access and Wait Times in Canada: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Designed for simplicity, used for complexity: The systemic pressures shaping walk-in clinic practices and outcomes.PloS one · 2025Article
- Of care continuity and brick walls.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2024Article
- Health Care Utilization After a Visit to a Within-Group Family Physician vs a Walk-In Clinic Physician.Annals of family medicineArticle
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Abstract
objectiveTo describe family physicians who primarily practise in a walk-in clinic setting and compare them with family physicians who provide longitudinal care.
designA cross-sectional study that linked results from a 2019 physician survey to provincial administrative health care data in Ontario. The characteristics, practice patterns, and patients of physicians primarily working in a walk-in clinic setting were compared with those of family physicians providing longitudinal care.
settingOntario.
participantsPhysicians who primarily worked in a walk-in clinic setting in 2019, as indicated by an annual physician survey.
main outcome measuresPhysician demographic and practice characteristics, as well as their patients' demographic and health care utilization characteristics, were reported according to whether the physician was a walk-in clinic physician or a family physician who provided longitudinal care.
resultsCompared with the 9137 family physicians providing longitudinal care, the 597 physicians who self-identified as practising primarily in walk-in clinics were more frequently male (67% vs 49%) and more likely to speak a language other than English or French (43% vs 32%). Walk-in clinic physicians tended to have more encounters with patients who were younger (mean 37 vs 47 years), who had lower levels of prior health care utilization (15% vs 19% in highest band), who resided in large urban areas (87% vs 77%), and who lived in highly ethnically diverse neighbourhoods (45% vs 35%). Walk-in clinic physicians tended to have more encounters with unattached patients (33% vs 17%) and with patients attached to another physician outside their group (54% vs 18%).
conclusionPhysicians who primarily work in walk-in clinics saw many patients from historically underserved groups and many patients who were attached to another family physician.
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