Table 2.
Background specialty of doctors and care practice provided by doctors classified by institutions for adults with childhood-onset neurologic conditions.
| Variables |
n (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clinics (n = 62) |
Hospitals (n = 12) |
Medical daycare (n = 1) |
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| Subspecialty | |||||
| Pediatrics | 8 | 6 | 1 | ||
| Internal medicine | 23 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Neurology | 4 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Surgery | 4 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Ophthalmology | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Otolaryngology | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Dermatology | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Psychiatry | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Gynecology | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Orthopedic | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Ability to provide home visitation services | 27 (43.5) | 5 (41.7) | 0 | ||
| Time spent per patients (min) (Clinics n = 59, Hospitals n = 12, Welfare facility n = 1) mean, SD | 13.6 ± 8.7 | 13.8 ± 4.3 | 20 | ||
| Number of patients in charge (Clinics n = 55, Hospitals n = 11, Welfare facility n = 1) | |||||
| < 5 | 44 (80) | 5 (45.5) | 0 | ||
| 5–9 | 1 (1.8) | 2 (18.2) | 0 | ||
| 10–19 | 4 (7.3) | 0 | 0 | ||
| ≥ 20 | 6 (10.9) | 4 (36.4) | 1 | ||
| Classification of referral sources* | |||||
| Transferred/referred from | Pediatric specialists in hospitals | 15 (24.2) | 3 (25) | 1 | |
| Adult specialists in hospitals | 14 (22.6) | 1 (8.3) | 1 | ||
| Other primary care doctor | 12 (19.4) | 1 (8.3) | 0 | ||
| Patient or family self-referred | 36 (58.1) | 2(16.7) | 0 | ||
| Since birth or childhood | 21 (33.9) | 7 (58.3) | 1 | ||
*
Participants indicated how often and from which specialist their patients were referred on a 5-point scale (1 = never, 2 = seldom, 3 = sometimes, 4 = frequently, and 5 = always). “Frequently” and “always” are dichotomized as “yes.”