Primary Care Physician Use and Frequency of Visits Among Physicians in Ontario, Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Maintaining a healthy physician workforce includes the routine use of primary care physician (PCP) services; however, physicians may face barriers to attaining formal care.

Objective

To analyze access to and frequency of visits to PCPs among physicians compared with nonphysicians.

Design, setting, and participants

This population-based, retrospective cohort study used registration data from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, Canada, from January 1, 1990, to March 31, 2018. Data for all newly practicing physicians as of March 31, 2018, were linked to Ontario health administrative databases. Data were analyzed from August 25, 2020, to August 6, 2021.

Main outcomes and measures

The main outcomes were enrollment in a PCP practice and visi

SUBMITTER: Rhodes E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9391953 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature