TABLE 1.

Characteristics of organizational typology models (percentage of patients in each model shown)

Organizational types	Definition and main characteristics
Solo provider 8%	Medical practice where a single doctor works in privately owned clinic
Group Practice 34%	Group medical practice in privately owned clinic
Family Medicine Group / Network 22%	Group practice (6 to 10 doctors for 10 to 22,000 registered patients
	Collaboration with multidisciplinary team (ex. nurses)
	Patients' registration based on a non-geographic roster
	Extended hours of services on evenings/weekends with telephone on-call services for vulnerable patients when the clinic is closed
Local Community Health Centre / Family Medicine unit 36%	Integrated to the governmental hospitals
	Complementary primary care services provided outside of the clinic walls (community, schools, work or home
	Broad range of services including health promotion and social care

Source: Levesque et al. 2010; Hutchison et al. 2010