Background Medical laboratory tests ordered redundantly represent one of the targets for
reducing diagnostic testing without negatively, and possibly positively, affecting patient care. …

Importance Men and women should earn equal pay for equal work. An examination of the
magnitude of pay disparities could inform strategies for remediation. Objective To examine …

… Nadine Chami and Steve Nastos contributed to the acquisition, analysis, and interpretation
of data. Nadine Chami drafted the manuscript. All of the authors revised it critically for …

Physician payment models' incentives regarding many aspects of primary health care are
not well understood. We focus on the case of medical laboratory utilization and examine how …

Importance While a gender pay gap in medicine has been well documented, relatively little
research has addressed mechanisms that mediate gender differences in referral income for …

Applications of behavioral economics targeted at optimizing laboratory utilization among
physicians have been implemented in Ontario through different types of nonfinancial …

Background Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction in response to infection. Early
recognition and rapid treatment are critical to patient outcomes and cost savings, but sepsis is …

Background Electronic medical record (EMR) systems have the potential to facilitate
appropriate laboratory testing. We examined three common medical tests in primary care—…

Background: Studies have estimated that a large backlog of procedures was generated by
emergency measures implemented in Ontario, Canada, at the onset of the COVID-19 …

This thesis addresses health-policy relevant questions regarding quantity and quality of
service delivery in primary healthcare using health administrative data from the province of …