Identification of physicians providing comprehensive primary care in Ontario: a retrospective analysis using linked administrative data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Given the changing landscape of primary care, there may be fewer primary care physicians available to provide a broad range of services to patients of all age groups and health conditions. We sought to identify physicians with comprehensive primary care practices in Ontario using administrative data, investigating how many and what proportion of primary care physicians provided comprehensive primary care and how this changed over time.

Methods

We identified the pool of active primary care physicians in linked population-based databases for Ontario from 1992/93 to 2014/15. After excluding those who saw patients fewer than 44 days per year, we identified physicians as providing comprehensive care if more than half of their services were for core primary care and if

SUBMITTER: Schultz SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5741421 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature