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Although national utilization data from the Canadian Institute of Health Information indicate that the percentage of total deliveries being handled by GP/FPs is decreasing, CMA physician surveys show that the actual number of deliveries per GP/FP active in the field is increasing. In 1986, GP/FPs performed an average of 30 deliveries per year; by 1995 this had increased to 35 per year. This suggests that physicians who were only doing a few deliveries per year have now stopped completely, and those that remain have a significant enough caseload to warrant paying the higher CMPA dues.
Source: Lynda Buske, chief, physician resources information and planning, CMA Research Directorate. Readers are invited to send potential research topics to the attention of Patrick Sullivan (sullip@cma.ca; 800 267-9703; [fax] 613 523-0937).