Doctors' performance needs to be discussed

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Carmel M Martin (cmartin@uottawa.ca), associate professor,
William Hogg, professor

Department of Family Medicine, University of Ottawa, I Stewart Street, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 6N5

EDITOR—We agree with Goldfield et al in their article on primary care in the United States1 that it is important to measure doctors' performance in a way that will improve the delivery of primary health care, although the generalist and team based nature of primary health care makes this complicated.2

In Canada, much …