Comparison Of CIHI’s PIC & OPHRDC’s PIO for 2017 The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and the Ontario Physician Human Resources Data Centre (OPHRDC) each produce a yearly report on physicians practicing in Ontario. These reports are titled Physicians in Canada (PIC) for CIHI and Physicians in Ontario (PIO) for OPHRDC. There are numerical differences between the two reports which the two organisations wish to make public to enable users of the data to better interpret the data. In future, this comparison report will be made available annually by OPHRDC and CIHI.
CIHI’s PIC and OPHRDC’s PIO Comparison 2017 3,192 IN PIC NOT in PIO 28,863 28,863 1721 IN PIO NOT IN PIC PIC: Physicians in Canada PIO: Physicians in Ontario
Methodological Differences PIC (CIHI) PIO (OPHRDC) Address is based on the postal code of the physician's preferred Address is determined by street address where the physician is spending most Address mailing address time practicing/seeing patients in Ontario Includes physicians who do not work in a clinical practice (ex: Only include physicians who provide patient care in Ontario for the equivalent of Active Definition academic physicians) at least 1 full day per week through the year Semi‐Retired and Military Not Included Included as long as they meet all other criteria Physicians Residents and Fellows after Included as long as they have an independent practice license and meet Not Included if they don’t have an independent practice; hence they Graduation or Completion inclusion criteria. All new graduates/fellows are surveyed by OPHRDC to are mobile and hard to track. determine where they are practicing. of Fellowship No Publication option Physicians can opt out of being included in the count Includes all active physicians (no option to opt out) Excludes physicians who have expired, suspended or revoked CPSO licenses; CPSO license exclusions Categorized by physician type (specialist, intern, resident) Excludes physicians with PG or Academic Visitor license class SMDB, Scott‘s Medical Directories, P/T Health ministries, Colleges of CPSO, OHIP, OMA, OPHRDC Postgraduate Registry, PHAL, OPHRDC Survey Data Sources Physicians and Surgeons of different P/T, CMA (phone)
Notes, Acronyms and Contact: NOTES: Produced by OPHRDC in cooperation with CIHI SMDB: Scotts’ Medical Data Base SMDB is used to produce the CIHI's annual Physicians in Canada report. References in this table document are to the Ontario‐specific records only SMDB data from January 1 st to December 31, 2017 is the base for the CIHI report CPSO (College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario) data from January 1 st to December 31, 2017 is the base for the PIO report OHIP: Ontario Health Insurance Plan OMA: Ontario Medical Association PHAL: 2017 For more information If you have any other questions, please contact OPHRDC (Raquel.Duran@ophrdc.org)
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