PURPOSE Patient-centered care is widely acknowledged as a core value in family medicine.
In this systematic review, we aimed to identify and compare instruments, subscales, or …

PURPOSE Case management (CM) interventions are effective for frequent users of health
care services, but little is known about which intervention characteristics lead to positive …

World-wide, shortages of primary care physicians and an increased demand for services have
provided the impetus for delivering team-based primary care. The diversity of the primary …

… Susan M Smith associate professor of general practice1, Hassan Soubhi adjunct professor
of family medicine2, Martin Fortin professor of family medicine2, Catherine Hudon associate …

OBJECTIVE: The objective was to provide a synthesis of the results of the research and
discourse lines on main dimensions of patient-centered care in the context of chronic disease …

PURPOSE There are few valid data that describe the extent of multimorbidity in primary care
patients. The purpose of this study was to estimate its prevalence in family practice patients …

Background Many patients with several concurrent medical conditions (multimorbidity) are
seen in the primary care setting. A thorough understanding of outcomes associated with …

Previous studies about the association of multimorbidity and the health-related quality of life
(HRQOL) in primary-care patients are limited because of their reliance on simple counts of …

… Catherine Hudon, assistant professor1, … Fortin M, Lapointe L, Hudon C, Vanasse A.
Multimorbidity is common to family practice. Is it commonly researched? … Articles by Catherine …

Background Published prevalence studies on multimorbidity present diverse data collection
methods, sources of data, targeted age groups, diagnoses considered and study populations…