Assessing the representativeness of physician and patient respondents to a primary care survey using administrative data.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:QUALICOPC is an international survey of primary care performance. QUALICOPC data have been used in several studies, yet the representativeness of the Canadian QUALICOPC survey is unknown, potentially limiting the generalizability of findings. This study examined the representativeness of QUALICOPC physician and patient respondents in Ontario using health administrative data. METHODS:This representativeness study linked QUALICOPC physician and patient respondents in Ontario to health administrative databases at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. Physician respondents were compared to other physicians in their practice group and all Ontario primary care physicians on demographic and practice characteristics. Patient respondents were compared to other patients rostered

SUBMITTER: Li A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5977493 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature