Patient clustering in primary care settings: Outcomes and quality of care.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether neighbours who share the same family physicians have better cardiovascular and health care outcomes.

Design

Retrospective cohort study using administrative health databases.

Setting

Ontario.

Participants

The study population included 2,690,482 adult patients cared for by 1710 family physicians.

Interventions

Adult residents of Ontario were linked to their family physicians and the geographic distance between patients in the same panel or list was calculated. Using distance between patients within a panel to stratify physicians into quintiles of panel proximity, physicians and patients from close-proximity practices were compared with those from more-distant-proximity practices. Age- and sex-standardized incidence rates and

SUBMITTER: Hogg W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9470188 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature