Quick COVID-19 Primary Care Survey
The Green Center, in partnership with the Primary Care Collaborative, is conducting a quick clinician survey to better understand response and capacity of US primary care practices to COVID-19. The survey takes only 3 minutes to complete.
Check back Friday, March 12th at 9AM EST for the next survey!
Participation is voluntary, confidential, and weekly shared with federal and state policy makers. For questions, please contact Rebecca Etz PhD, Rebecca.etz@vcuhealth.org.
Latest Clinician Results
There were 910 clinician participants from 47 states, Puerto Rico, and Guam in Series 26 of our survey, fielded February 12-16, 2021. Some key findings were:
- Two months after the first vaccine was given in the US, practices are still struggling to access vaccines for their patients. Although 89% of primary care clinicians want their practices to be a vaccination site, only 22% are considered as such by their health department, local hospital, or health system.
- Primary care is overlooked as an outlet for equitable vaccine distribution even as it has the ability to target those most vulnerable and in need. Over 60% of clinicians surveyed have already created eligibility groups and proactive outreach campaigns to educate their patients.
For a more detailed description and summary of all key findings, download the Series 26 Executive Summary or visit the Results Page hosted by our partner, the Primary Care Collaborative.
Extraordinary Moments in Primary Care During COVID
Primary health care has great potential to be a major part of the solution to the most intractable problems of a fragmented, depersonalized, and unsustainable health system. Because of its integrative, personalizing, and prioritizing focus on the whole person, family and community, family medicine has the potential to improve the health of people and populations in ways that foster equity and sustainability. But that potential is limited by misunderstanding what matters about family medicine and primary care. This misunderstanding leads to systems, measurement, and payment that often thwart the improvements they are intended to foster.
The Larry A. Green Center was formed in 2017 to conduct the kind of cutting edge research, development and advocacy that are not supported by other mechanisms, but that have the greatest potential for transformative effects.
Work of the Green Center focuses on four main priorities. Our approach to these priorities is based in the need for vision, sustained partnerships, and integrated learning. We understand that discovery starts with learning how to ask and learning how to ask begins with learning how to listen.
The priority programs of the Green Center are:
Measures
Our work on measures currently focuses on our Person-Centered Primary Care Measure (PCPCM). A New Comprehensive Measure of High-Value Aspects of Primary Care, published in the Annals of Family Medicine, explains the process taken to develop the PCPCM, as well as its reliability and validity.
Foundations
Considerable conversation at the Green Center focuses on how best to describe and support primary care. Understanding where to go requires understanding where we’ve been and where we are.
Emergence
On Friday, March 13, 2020, the Green Center launched its first weekly Quick COVID-19 Primary Care Survey to assess the impact of COVID-19 on practices. We have also conducted two Simulathons to explore agent-based and situational modeling and how they might be applied to modeling primary care.
Conversations
Because of the Green Center’s interest in quick and accurate dissemination, we have begun creating our own YouTube channel, blog, and newsletters. These are currently still under production but stay tuned as they progress.