title: Making best use of every healthcare provider's knowledge and skills.
abstract: In "Organizing Primary Care for an Integrated System" Rosser and Kasperski propose changing the way family physicians practice to address deficiencies in the current primary-care delivery system in Canada. These deficiencies include a growing shortage of physicians, particularly in rural areas of Canada; the growing dependence of Canadians on acute hospital emergency units or "walk- in clinics" for primary care; fragmentation and unnecessary duplication in the delivery of primary-care services; lack of understanding on the part of the community and hospital sectors of the role of the family-practice physician; a fee-for-service funding model that does not reward prevention and health-promotion initiatives by physicians and makes high-problem visits the most lucrative; and lack of clarity with regard to what the public should expect from their physicians.
authors.affiliation: Children's and Women's Health Centre of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mass
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006282:Health Personnel; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011361:Professional Competence; D024382:Professional Role; D011639:Public Opinion; D019035:Rural Health Services / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D000078329:Workforce