| More doctors or better care? | |
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PMID: 20676248 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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The Canadian Medical Association's More Doctors, More Care campaign seeks to align physician supply targets with policy decisions elsewhere in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Using OECD data for 19 countries to assess the relationship between physician supply and healthcare outcomes, we have determined that there is no association between avoidable mortality and overall physician supply. Similarly, there is no relationship between avoidable mortality and general practitioners and family physicians per capita, specialists per capita, nurses per capita, doctors and nurses per capita or health expenditures per capita. These findings should move us to recognize that (a) more doctors will not necessarily translate into better healthcare outcomes for Canadians and (b) it is in Canadians' better interests that we instead focus on realizing opportunities to improve access to high-quality care and to ensure that changes in physician turnover do not threaten the current generalist-to-specialist mix. |
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Authors:
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Diane E Watson; Kimberlyn M McGrail |
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Healthcare policy = Politiques de santé Volume: 5 ISSN: 1715-6572 ISO Abbreviation: Healthc Policy Publication Date: 2009 Aug |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2010-08-02 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 101280107 Medline TA: Healthc Policy Country: Canada |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 26-31 Citation Subset: - |
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Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. |
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