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Comprehensive and Focus Practice changes in the Family Physician Workforce in Ontario:1993-2022 [Population health and epidemiology]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design and Analysis: Using health administrative data held at ICES, we developed an algorithm to identify primary care physicians, and then described their type of practice (comprehensive, focused practice, other) based on the physician billings and number of days worked in a typical year. in 2021/2022.

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Family physicians perform high-quality colonoscopies, but access is an issue

Common Sense Family Doctor

Most patients who choose colonoscopy as a screening test for colorectal cancer are referred from primary care to a gastroenterologist or other specialist who performs endoscopy. But that wasn’t the case for the estimated 1 in 15 US patients whose screening colonoscopies were performed by family physicians in 2021.