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Instructional videos for navigating and using your report
Additional resources
Data Dictionary
The Data Dictionary provides information on the description, rationale, interpretation, calculations, data sources, limitations and alignments of all the metrics in the HQCA’s Provincial Primary Healthcare Panel Report. This information is intended to help improve the understanding and interpretation of the metrics and their presentation in the report.
Proxy Algorithm
The HQCA proxy panel is an estimate of a physician’s active panel based on the pattern of family
physician billing claims over a three-year period. The algorithm predicts which family physician, from all those seen by a patient over the three-year time
period, is most likely to be the patient’s main family physician. If there is a tie between two or more family
physicians at any step, assignment moves to the next step.The proxy panel will be most accurate for physicians who had a stable practice during the data period and
who saw few patients of other family physicians (e.g., in an after-hours or walk-in clinic)
Panel reports in action: A case study
This Alberta Doctors’ Digest article details how one Calgary family physician uses the HQCA Primary Healthcare Panel Reports to improve cancer screening rates.
Recipe for success: your guide for discussing panel reports with physicians
How do you talk to physicians about the panel reports? This is a 'recipe' to help guide you through the conversation.
Understanding continuity data learning module
This module is all about relational continuity, as the Primary Healthcare Panel Reports contain measures that address relational continuity.
Webinar for Improvement Facilitators
Co-hosted by the Alberta Medical Association and the HQCA, we hosted a webinar on March 28, 2019 for Improvement Facilitators in Alberta introducing them to the Primary Healthcare Panel Report.