Table 2.
Patient Characteristics, Weighted Percentage of Office Visits, NAMCS Data, 1997–2000
| Visit Type | ||||
| Patient Characteristic | FP-WR* (n = 326) | OP-WR (n = 2,061) | OccMed-WR (n = 180) | FP-NWR (n = 12,865) |
| Age, y, % | ||||
| ≤14 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 14.4§ |
| 15–24 | 12.7 | 8.1‡ | 7.0§ | 9.7 |
| 25–44 | 54.5 | 52.1 | 62.3† | 27.6§ |
| 45–64 | 27.2 | 35.3† | 30.7 | 27.0 |
| 65–74 | 3.1 | 2.9 | 0.0† | 10.9‡ |
| ≥75 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 10.5§ |
| Age, mean, y | 39.5 | 41.2‡ | 39.4 | 42.6‡ |
| Sex, % | ||||
| Female | 38.1 | 39.0 | 39.6 | 58.3§ |
| Male | 61.9 | 61.0 | 60.4 | 41.7§ |
| Race, % | ||||
| White | 84.9 | 83.7 | 74.9† | 89.8† |
| Black | 13.4 | 12.8 | 17.8 | 7.8‡ |
| Asian/Pacific Islander | 1.0 | 2.3 | 3.4† | 2.0 |
| American Indian/Eskimo/Aleut | 0.8 | 1.3 | 3.9† | 0.4 |
| Ethnicity, % | ||||
| Hispanic | 8.6 | 14.0‡ | 25.5§ | 7.3 |
| Not Hispanic | 71.0 | 64.8 | 65.6 | 70.8 |
Note: For ethnicity, some values were missing, so percentages do not add up to 100%.
NAMCS = National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey; FP-WR = visit to family practice physician for work-related condition; OP-WR = visit to non–family practice physician for work-related condition; OccMed-WR = visit to occupational medicine physician for work-related condition; FP-NWR = visit to family practice physician for non–work-related condition.
* Reference category for comparison.
† P <.05
‡ P <.01
§ P <.001