The anesthesia workforce in Canada: a methodology to identify physician anesthesia providers using health administrative data

Table 1 The Physician Workforce and Anesthesia Providers (1996–2018): Estimates of provider stock from different data sources

	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Anesthesia Workforce: Current Study*	2016	2039	2078	2160	2223	2246	2281	2357	2438	2535	2623	2723	2840	3035	3111	3230	3318	3405	3488	3560	3622	3649	3681
Anesthesia specialists
Current study*	1672	1681	1694	1721	1769	1822	1849	1922	1990	2038	2119	2207	2292	2480	2544	2617	2672	2731	2803	2850	2905	2949	3020
SMDB*	1682	1678	1715	1761	1800	1834	1840	1852	1874	1895	1909	2013	2070	2184	2262	2345	2375	2472	2504	2576	,657	2716	2834
CMA Masterfile**					1738	1763	1799	1827	1852	1892	1979	2038	2094	2173	2212	2284	2360	2444	2474	2500	2513	2569	2573
Family practice anesthesia
Current Study*	300	314	342	363	384	366	370	383	397	430	425	441	461	469	478	507	525	544	561	575	577	564	534
CFPC membership database																				206	307	328	348
All Physicians
SMDB**	39 686	39 901	40 691	41 332	42 033	42 680	43 612	43 936	44 467	45 268	45 774	46 900	48 383	50 671	51 902	54 033	56 152	58 312	60 199	62 143	63 793	65 735	68 894
CMA masterfile**					41 717	42 594	43 422	44 924	45 385	45 484	46 625	47 705	49 397	50 477	52 123	52 972	54 914	56 708	57 232	59 121	60 194	62 905	63 577

*Includes physicians from Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan, and Yukon
**Includes physicians from Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan, and the Territories

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