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Primary Healthcare

Learn about patient experience and quality of care in primary care clinics across Alberta. We believe reporting about primary healthcare is important to support transparency, quality improvement and a better understanding of Alberta’s healthcare system.

Clinical care

Delivery of care

Consistent use of the same family doctor (doctor continuity)
Consistent use of the same primary care clinic (clinic continuity)
Emergency department visits for minor conditions
- Emergency department visits for minor conditions – by time of day
- Emergency department visits for minor conditions – by doctor continuity
Family doctor use of various visit types
Family doctor visit after a hospital stay for selected chronic conditions

Patient experience

Starting a conversation

The healthcare system is complex and inter-related. The information about primary healthcare on this website can start conversations that lead to improvement. For example, understanding how patients are using other areas of the healthcare system, like visits to the emergency department for minor conditions, and can inform us about things like how easy it is to access primary healthcare (family doctor availability).

These 15 interactive charts are updated annually (once per year). You can look at the information by Zone (the five Alberta Health Services geographic areas), or compare information between primary care networks.