Reporting a regular medical doctor index: A new measure of patient-physician affiliation for health administrative data

• Caroline King,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

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• M. Ruth Lavergne,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

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• Kimberlyn McGrail,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

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• Erin C. Strumpf ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: erin.strumpf@mcgill.ca

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, Department of Economics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7348-8663

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• on behalf of the Quebec-British Columbia Patient Enrolment Project Team

  ¶Membership of the Quebec-British Columbia Patient Enrolment Project Team is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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