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Many patients experienced high and rising costs of health insurance and resented the limits placed on their choice of physicians and procedures.
From a health system perspective, however, our results have several implications: - There may be a downside to boundless shopping around for physicians and procedures.
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Both of these databases contain individual patient-level information including patient demography (age, gender, location, etc), attending physicians, diagnoses and procedures performed, service transfers while in hospital, specialty services received (e.g. physiotherapy, occupational therapy), and case complexity (e.g. resource intensity weight).
Unfortunately, with the current physician and procedure room constraints, only two elective procedure types could be pooled.
The baseline patient characteristics available from the RAMQ database were determined based on demographic data, prescription claims, and in- and out-patient physician and procedure claims.
From the RAMQ database, we obtained in- and out-patient physician and procedure claims, prescription drug claims, and demographic data on all patients aged 65 years and older who were dispensed COX-2 inhibitors, ns-NSAIDs, aspirin, or acetaminophen between January 1998 and December 2002 in the province.
If one or more of the access time targets are not met, the number of hours used in the simulation model cannot be increased without applying the ILP-model to make sure the physician and procedure room constraints will be met.
Summarizing, we found no articles in which both access time targets as well as various procedure types, specialized physicians and different procedure rooms are modeled simultaneously.
Ontario has a publicly funded healthcare system which covers all medically necessary physician visits and procedures.
Physician visits and procedures are billed on the date of service, with random audits conducted by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, the single payer of health services.
Procedures not billed for by physicians by error and procedures performed at private clinics (an exception in Quebec) were missing.
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