Does improved access to care affect utilization and costs for patients with chronic conditions?
A major improvement in patient access to primary care clinics was associated with increased use and continuity of primary care for patients with 3 chronic conditions, but did not affect overall resource use.
A diagnosis of an inheritable cause of sudden death was obtained in a significant minority of those with a family history of SUD/aborted cardiac arrest. The number of ICDs inserted as a result of specialist assessment was very small (2%). A major function of the clinic is reassurance of the clinically normal and cessation of treatment after exclusion of familial disease by genetic testing.