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Construction Of Prediction Models For The Health Utility Index Mark 3 In Ontario And Its Application, Yue Niu

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The government of Ontario initiated primary care reform in the early 2000s, leading to a shift away from the traditional fee-for-service (FFS) physician remuneration to incentive-based blended remuneration models. Research on the association between change in physician remuneration and patients' health status is unknown. The objectives of this thesis are to (i) construct a statistical model to predict the Health Utility Index 3 (HUI3) values for all non-institutionalized Ontario residents, and (ii) study the association between the change in physician remuneration models and patients' health status measured by HUI3. The data came from the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) 2000-2001 …