Using Your Report
Understanding how to use your report ensures you are able to dig deeper into the results, the measures of interest, and can reflect on what the measures mean to your practice. Check out our many resources.
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 Health Quality Alberta’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
Health Quality Alberta's proxy panel is an estimate of a provider's active panel based on the pattern of primary care provider billing claims over a three-year period. The algorithm predicts which provider, from all those seen by a patient over the three-year time period, is most likely to be the patient’s main primary care provider. If there is a tie between two or more providers at any step, assignment moves to the next step. The proxy panel will be most accurate for providers who had a stable practice during the data period and who saw few patients of other providers (e.g., in an after-hours or walk-in clinic)
Recipe for success: your guide for discussing panel reports with physicians
How do you talk to primary care providers 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.