Representativeness of patients and providers in the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN) has established a national repository of primary care patient health data that is used for both surveillance and research. Our main objective was to determine how representative the data for patients and primary care practitioners in the CPCSSN are when compared with the Canadian population.

Methods

In this cross-sectional study, we compared the 2013 CPCSSN patient sample with age and sex information from the 2011 census. The CPCSSN provider sample in 2013 was compared with the 2013 National Physician Survey. Results were stratified by 5 clinically relevant age categories and sex, and male-to-female ratios were calculated.

Results

Patients who were 65 years of age and older represented 20.4% o

SUBMITTER: Queenan JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4866925 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature