Dr. Thomas Freeman Peer Reviewed Publications

Mathews M, Liu T, Ryan D, Hedden L, Lukewich J, Marshall EG, Buote R, Meredith L, Moritz LR, Spencer S, Asghari S, Brown JB, Freeman TR, Gill PS, Sibbald S. Practice- and System-Based Interventions to Reduce COVID-19 Transmission in Primary Care Settings: A Qualitative Study. Healthc Policy. 2023 Nov;19(2):63-78. doi: 10.12927/hcpol.2023.27232.

Ranade S, Thind A, Freeman T, Brown JB. Population-centered medical method: A population-centered medical model for public health medicine. Public Health. 2024 Jun 3;233:27-30. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2024.05.005. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38833759.

Spencer S, Lukewich J, Marshall EG, Mathews M, Asghari S, Brown JB, Freeman TR, Gill P, Idrees S, McCracken RK, Ranade S, Slade S, Terry AL, Wickett J, Wong E, Buote R, Meredith L, Moritz L, Ryan D, Hedden L. “Family doctors are also people”: a qualitative analysis of how family physicians managed competing personal and professional responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Hum Resour Health, 2024 Mar 4; 22 (1): 18, Coauthor, DOI: 10.1186/s12960-024-00901-4.

Freeman TR, Stewart M, Léger D, Jordan J, Copeland J, Hons I, Thind A, Ryan B. Natural history of abdominal pain in family practice: Longitudinal study of electronic medical record data in southwestern Ontario. Can Fam Physician. 2023 May;69(5):341-351. doi: 10.46747/cfp.6905341. PMID: 37172994; PMCID: PMC10177648.

Hedden, L., Spencer, S., Mathews, M., Marshall, E.G., Lukewich, J., Asghari, S., Brown, J.B., Gill, P.S., Freeman, T.R., McCracken, R.K., Ryan, B.L., Vaughan, C., Wong, E., Buote, R., Meredith, L., Moritz, L., Ryan, D., McKay, M., Schacter, G. “There’s nothing like a good crisis for innovation”: a qualitative study of family physicians’ experiences with virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic. BMC Health Serv Res 23, 338 (2023).

Kaneko M, Ikeda T, Inoue M, Sugiyama K, Saito M, Ohta R, Cooray U, Vingilis E, Freeman TR, Mathews M. Development and validation of a rurality index for healthcare research in Japan: a modified Delphi study. BMJ Open. 2023 Jun 19;13(6):e068800. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-068800. PMID: 37336534.

Mathews M, Ryan D, Hedden L, Lukewich J, Marshall EG, Asghari S, Terry AL, Buote R, Meredith L, Moritz L, Spencer S, Brown JB, Christian E, Freeman TR, Gill PS, Sibbald SL, Wong E. Family physicians' responses to personal protective equipment shortages in four regions in Canada: a qualitative study. BMC Prim Care. 2023 Feb 27;24(1):56. doi: 10.1186/s12875-022-01958-7.

Ryan B, Thompson K, Meredith L, Richard L, Shariff S, Terry A, Freeman T, Brown J, Matthews M, Stewart M, He J, Choi YH, Wilson H, Reichert S, Cejic S. Family physician virtual care during COVID-19 in London-Middlesex, Ontario, Canada: a mixed methods exploration. Ann Fam Med. 2022 Apr 1;(20 Suppl 1). doi: 10.1370/afm.20.s1.2863.

Marbeen M, Freeman TF, Terry AL. Focused practice in family medicine: Quantitative study. Can Fam Physician 2022;68:905-14. DOI: 10.46747/cfp.6812905.

Mathews M, Meredith L, Ryan D, Hedden L, Lukewich J, Marshall EG, Buote RD, Moritz L, Spencer S, Asghari A, Brown JB, Freeman TR, Gill PS, McCracken RK, McKay M, Ryan B, Sibbald SL, Wetmore S, Wong E. The roles of family physicians during a pandemic. Healthcare Management Forum 2022; (0):1-6.

Mathews M, Ryan D, Hedden L, Lukewich J, Marshall EG, Brown JB, Gill PS, McKay M, Wong E, Wetmore SJ, Buote R, Meredith L, Moritz L, Spencer S, Alexiadis M, Freeman TR, Letto A, Ryan BL, Sibbald SL, Terry AL. Family physician leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic: roles, functions and key supports. Leadersh Health Serv (Bradf Engl). 2022 Jul 27; (ahead-of-print). doi: 10.1108/LHS-03-2022-0030.

Olmstead C, Wakabayashi AT, Freeman TR, Cejic S. Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening in an academic family practice. Canadian Family Physician December 2022, 68 (12) 899-904; doi: 10.46747/cfp.6812899.

Ryan BL, Brown JB, Freeman TR, Richard L, Stewart M, Meredith L, Choi YH, He JW, Cejic S, Thompson K, Reichert S, Shariff SZ, Booth R, Terry AL, Mathews M. Virtual family physician care during COVID-19: a mixed methods study using health administrative data and qualitative interviews. BMC Prim Care. 2022 Nov 25;23(1):300. doi: 10.1186/s12875-022-01902-9.

Ranade S, Brown JB, Freeman TR, Thind A. Enacting care by being experts and managing relationships: A discourse analysis of Chief Medical Officer of health media briefings during the COVID-19 pandemic. SSM – Qualitative Research in Health, 2022 Dec 30. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100208. Online ahead of print.

Kaneko M, Ohta R, Vingilis E, Mathews M, Freeman TR. Systematic scoping review of factors and measures of rurality: toward the development of a rurality index for health care research in Japan. BMC Health Serv Res. 2021 Jan 4;21(1):9. doi: 10.1186/s12913-020-06003-w.

Mathews M, Spencer S, Hedden L, Marshall EG, Lukewich J, Meredith L, Ryan D, Buote R, Liu T, Volpe E, Gill PS, Ryan B, Schacter G, Wickett J, Freeman TR, Sibbald SL, Wong E, McKay M, McCracken R, Brown JB. Development of a primary care pandemic plan informed by in-depth policy analysis and interviews with family physicians across Canada during COVID-19: a qualitative case study protocol. BMJ Open. 2021 Jul 22;11(7):e048209. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048209.

Premji K, Sucha E, Glazier RH, Green ME, Wodchis WP, Hogg WE, Kiran T, Frymire E, Freeman TR, Ryan BL. Primary care bonus payments and patient-reported access in urban Ontario: a cross-sectional study. CMAJ Open. 2021 Nov 30;9(4):E1080-E1096. doi: 10.9778/cmajo.2020023.

Stewart M, Freeman T, Hartman TO, Lucassen P, van Boven K, Leger D, Cejic S. Symptoms in family practice: New findings using electronic medical record data. Can Fam Physician. 2021 Nov;67(11):803-804. doi: 10.46747/cfp.6711803.

Freeman T, Stewart M. Making the case for the study of symptoms in family practice. Can Fam Physician. 2020 Mar;66(3):218-219.

Shah M, Jordan Ho, Zhong A, Fung M, Elia M, Dang J, Freeman TR. In a Time of Need: A Grassroots Initiative in Response to PPE Shortage in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Responding to the COVID Crisis. Healthc Q. 2020 July;23(2):9-5. doi:10.12927/hcq.2020.26282.

Lee L, King G, Freeman T, Eva KW. Situational cues surrounding family physicians seeking external resources while self-monitoring in practice. Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract.;2019 Oct;24(4):783-796. doi: 10.1007/s10459-019-09898-1. Epub 2019 May 23.

Freeman TR, Boisvert L, Wong E, Wetmore S, Maddocks H. Comprehensive practice: Normative definition across 3 generations of alumni from a single family practice program, 1985 to 2012. Can Fam Physician. 2018 Oct;64(10):750-759.

Reeve J, Beaulieu MD, Freeman T, Green LA, Lucassen P, Martin C, Okado T, Palmer V, Sturgiss E, Sturmberg J, van Weel C; NAPCRG Advancing Generalist Expertise SIG.  Revitalizing Generalist Practice: The Montreal Statement. Ann Fam Med. 2018 Jul;16(4):371-373. doi: 10.1370/afm.2280.