Characteristics of walk-in clinic physicians and patients in Ontario: Cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe family physicians who primarily practise in a walk-in clinic setting and compare them with family physicians who provide longitudinal care.

Design

A cross-sectional study that linked results from a 2019 physician survey to provincial administrative health care data in Ontario. The characteristics, practice patterns, and patients of physicians primarily working in a walk-in clinic setting were compared with those of family physicians providing longitudinal care.

Setting

Ontario.

Participants

Physicians who primarily worked in a walk-in clinic setting in 2019, as indicated by an annual physician survey.

Main outcome measures

Physician demographic and practice characteristics, as well as their patients' demographic and health care util

SUBMITTER: Lapointe-Shaw L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11477262 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature