MAAP: Models and Access Atlas of Primary Care Study

About

MAAP primary care studies are currently being conducted in four Canadian Provinces: British Columbia, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. For key survey findings, please visit the provincial MAAP page. 

New MAAP-NS Initiative:

Working with the Nova Scotia Health Authority, MAAP-NS is developing practice profiles to provide our participants with findings from the MAAP study that are relevant to their practice in the context of primary care in their geographic location; provide an opportunity to build relationships between providers and the MAAP study; and elicit provider feedback on the data results and future research.  

GOAL: Improved patient and provider primary healthcare experiences, quality of life, while containing care costs.

MAAP-AC Proposal Resources

MAAP Objectives

MAAP primary care studies aim to close critical knowledge gaps on primary healthcare, including its delivery (e.g., models of care, accessibility, and comprehensiveness) and the relationships between existing models, their constituent elements, and health system outcomes. Using census surveys with high response rates of practices as well as family physicians and nurse practitioners, linked to administrative data, MAAP:

Investigates:

Access to family physicians and primary care nurse practitioners

Delineates:

Practice and provider characteristics:
age, sex, years in practice, site of training; size, components, and scope of practice, retirement plans.

Develops Primary Health Care Indicators:

Models of primary care
Provider responsibility
Collaboration index

Examines:

How these provider and practice characteristics impact the health care Nova Scotians receive.