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Referral patterns for common surgical procedures in Ontario: a cross-sectional population-level study.
Can J Surg
December 2024
From the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. (Seyedi, Aleman, Bodur, Carter); Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia (Baxter); the Department of Medicine, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ont. (Bell); the Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. (Bell); ICES (Calzavara, Emerson), Research and Analysis (Lee); the Department of Ophthalmology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ont. (Campbell); the Department of Anesthesia, Pain Management & Perioperative Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S. (de Jager); the University Health Network, Toronto General Research Institute, Toronto, Ont. (Gagliardi); the University Health Network, Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Toronto, Ont. (Irish); the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. (Martin); the Medfall Group, St. Catharines, Ont. (Saxe-Braithwaite); the Women's College Hospital, Toronto, Ont. (Takata); Data and Decision Sciences, Ontario Health (Yang); Ontario Health (Cancer Care Ontario), Access to Care, Toronto, Ont. (Zanchetta); the Department of Surgery, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, Ont. (Urbach)
Background: Little is known about the existing structure and function of referral networks in the prevalent referral system for specialized surgical care in Canada, which is based on direct physician referral to specialists in a largely unmanaged referral marketplace. Our objective was to describe and analyze the referral networks of referring physicians and surgeons for common surgical procedures in Ontario, to better understand potential barriers to single-entry models.
Methods: We analyzed referral networks for patients between referring physicians and surgeons for 9 common scheduled surgical procedures from 2016 to 2019 using administrative data sources in Ontario.