Key Success Factors
and Pitfalls
Continuity & Comprehensiveness of Care
Primary Care Toolkit for Family Physicians
The College of Family Physicians of Canada
Factors that Hinder
Simply stated, the absence of the success factors described above will prohibit support for and development of the continuity and comprehensiveness of care.
More specifically, the absence of incentives that are aligned with the desired outcomes of primary care will have negative effects. These include the relative absence in many jurisdictions of appropriate fees that support the family physician's continuing involvement in care, (e.g. hospital in-patient care, on-call services, chronic disease management and maternity services). If governments and other health authorities are to support comprehensive primary care, efforts must be taken to ensure that funds and resources, including health human resources, are expended on those services that will have the greatest long term and sustainable effects for the health of patients and their communities.