Bogdan Bogdanovic

TL;DR: There have been substantial temporal shifts in the volume of services provided by FPs of different age groups, and the perpetual focus of policy-makers and care providers on increasing numbers of FPs will not help in diagnosing or treating issues of supply, workloads and access to care.

TL;DR: The authors introduce the Population Health Information System, its conceptual framework, and the data elements required to implement such a system in other jurisdictions.

TL;DR: An integrated database and population-based health information system designed in Manitoba, Canada provides decision makers with the capability to make critical comparisons across regions and subregions of residents' health status, socioeconomic risk characteristics and use of hospitals, nursing homes, and physicians.

TL;DR: Using administrative health data to develop and measure eight indicators of quality of care covering both preventive care services and chronic disease management establishes a practical methodology to measurequality of care provided by family physicians that can be used for quality improvement initiatives.

TL;DR: Policy makers have found this information system useful in providing answers to questions they are often asked: Which populations need more physician services?