The impact of not having a primary care provider on emergency department utilization and hospitalizations before and during COVID-19: A novel retrospective cohort study linking primary care waitlists with administrative billing data.
Objectives Primary care attachment improves access, chronic disease prevention and management. Growing proportions of Canadians are unattached and registering with provincial primary care waitlists for family doctors or nurse practitioners. We compare emergency department utilization and hospitaliza...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Swansea University
2022-08-01
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Series: | International Journal of Population Data Science |
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Online Access: | https://ijpds.org/article/view/1932 |