2023, Illness, Insurance and Referral

Practice patterns of Ontario physicians working in 'boutique' medical clinics [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Provincial administrative claims data was obtained from the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP). All fee-for-service physicians who billed at least 1 OHIP claim from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016 and from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023 under their clinic group codes were included.

Clinic

Clinic Referral Primary Care Physician Primary Care

Chronic disease management among people with serious mental illness across rural, small urban, and metropolitan settings [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: People with serious mental illness (SMI) are at increased risk of complications and earlier death from comorbid chronic diseases, compared with patients without mental illness. Referral to and/or visit with an ophthalmologist was most common in metropolitan settings, with similarly lower values in small urban and rural.

Chronic Disease Management

Chronic Disease Management Chronic Disease Illness Management

Primary Care Digest

Practice patterns of Ontario physicians working in 'boutique' medical clinics [Economic or policy analysis]

Chronic disease management among people with serious mental illness across rural, small urban, and metropolitan settings [Health care disparities]

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