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ArticleCMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne2023

Physician workforce planning in Canada: the importance of accounting for population aging and changing physician hours of work.

Rabiul Islam, Boris Kralj, Arthur Sweetman

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Article in CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Physician Age and Patient Outcomes: A Systematic Review.Journal of general internal medicine · 2026
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  2. Toward a family medicine capability framework for Canada: From competence to capability.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2026
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  7. Advances in cancer therapy require urgent changes to the oncology workforce.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2025
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  11. The anesthesia human resources crisis in Canada.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2024
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  12. Strategies to increase access to physician-led anesthesia care in Canada.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2024
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  13. Long-term trends in the work hours of physicians in Canada.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Rabiul IslamDepartment of Economics (Islam, Kralj, Sweetman); Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA) (Kralj, Sweetman); Health Policy PhD program (Sweetman), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.
Boris KraljDepartment of Economics (Islam, Kralj, Sweetman); Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA) (Kralj, Sweetman); Health Policy PhD program (Sweetman), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.
Arthur SweetmanDepartment of Economics (Islam, Kralj, Sweetman); Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA) (Kralj, Sweetman); Health Policy PhD program (Sweetman), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont. arthur.sweetman@mcmaster.ca.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Health WorkforcePhysiciansAgingCanadaHumansPersonnel Staffing and Scheduling

Identifiers

PMID36878540
PMCPMC9987225

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