Patients report high information coordination between rostered primary care physicians and specialists: A cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT: Our study aimed to describe patient experience of information coordination between their primary care physician and specialists and to examine the associations between their experience and their personal and primary care characteristics. We conducted a cross-sectional study of Ontario residents rostered to a primary care physician and visited a specialist physician in the previous 12 months by linking population-based health administrative data to the Health Care Experience Survey collected between 2013 and 2020. We described respondents' sociodemographic and health care utilization characteristics and their experience of information coordination between their primary care physician and specialists. We measured the adjusted association between patient-reported measures of information coord

SUBMITTER: Rahman B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11340953 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature