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ArticleHealthcare policy = Politiques de sante2018

Will the Real Physician Retirees Please Stand Up?

Lindsay Hedden, M Ruth Lavergne, Kimberlyn M McGrail, Michael R Law, Lucy Cheng, Megan A Ahuja, Morris L Barer

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Article in Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Lindsay HeddenCentre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, Research Pavilion, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC.
M Ruth LavergneFaculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.
Kimberlyn M McGrailCentre for Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
Michael R LawCentre for Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
Lucy ChengCentre for Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
Megan A AhujaCentre for Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
Morris L BarerCentre for Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

Funding

CIHR FRN-104086
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Policy makers and health workforce planners rely on counts of practice licences as a measure of the size of the active physician workforce. We use a population-based approach to correlate estimates of retirement from clinical care based on these data with those produced using physician payment data. We find that licensure data generates per-capita estimates of physician supply in British Columbia that are substantially higher than activity-based estimates. Licensure data are unlikely to produce reliable estimates of the timing and extent of physician retirement and therefore should not be used as the primary basis for estimating current or future physician supply.

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AdultAgedBritish ColumbiaFemaleHealth WorkforceHumansLicensureMaleMiddle AgedPhysiciansRetirement

Identifiers

PMID30710439
PMCPMC7008673

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