First, comprehensiveness does not ensure explanatory power.
First, the comprehensiveness of our review is limited because many CBC programs do not publish or make vital information publicly available.
The first group corresponds comprehensiveness to scope ; "a spectrum of care that covers a broad range of patient needs" [ 11].
A sixth variable, Overall Comprehensiveness, was derived based on the mean proportion of the other five scores.
The second group referred comprehensiveness to a broader meaning including the whole-person care aspect [ 5, 10].
Starfield also defines primary care as a set of functions that, in combination, are unique to primary care and characterised by four attributes; first contact, longitudinality, comprehensiveness and coordination [ 2].
The relevance of studies for our review relied on such commonly recognized attributes of primary medical care as accessibility, comprehensiveness, first contact care, general scope, coordination, continuity and accountability [ 19- 22].
PCAT was developed by Johns Hopkins Primary Care Policy Center and included four unique domains (first contact, longitudinality, comprehensiveness, and coordination) as well as three derivative attributes (family centeredness, community orientation, and cultural competence) [ 13].
The purpose of this study was to explore from primary care workers' perspectives whether the family medicine model can achieve primary care's cardinal functions (first contact, longitudinality, comprehensiveness, and coordination) and thus to understand whether the model has an integrative position in the Turkish health care system.
For comprehensiveness, we first introduce the vertex-path and vertex vertex dominance concept.
