Reporting a regular medical doctor index: A new measure of patient-physician affiliation for health administrative data.

ABSTRACT: Having a regular medical doctor is associated with better process of care and health outcomes. The goal of this study was to harness the richness in health administrative data to create a measure which accurately predicted whether patients self-identified as having a regular medical doctor. The Canadian Community Health Survey (2007-2012) was linked with health administrative data (HAD) (2002-2012) from Quebec, Canada's second largest province. The Canadian Community Health Survey includes respondents' answer to whether they have a regular medical doctor, but health administrative data does not. We therefore used LASSO and Random Forests to build prediction models that predict whether a patient reports having a regular medical doctor using their data only available in the HAD. Our results

SUBMITTER: King C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11611086 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature