Table 2.

Comparison of Outpatient Clinic Visit Utilization

Outpatient clinic visits FY 2003*	Percent† of women with ≥1 clinic visit	Percent of men with ≥1 clinic visit	Median visits by women (Q1, Q3)‡	Median visits by men (Q1, Q3)‡	Unadjusted comparison P value§
Primary care	89.4	82.6	4 (2,6)	2 (1,4)	<0.0001
Total psychiatry	41.9	28.0	0 (0,3)	0 (0,1)	<0.0001
Psychiatry/psychology	40.9	25.4	0 (0,3)	0 (0,1)	<0.0001
Substance abuse	2.2	3.0			0.5752¸
Military sexual trauma	2.7	0			<0.0001¸
PTSD	2.7	4.6			0.1587¸
Physical therapy	21.2	18.6	0 (0,0)	0 (0,0)	0.2452
Pain clinic	15.0	17.0	0 (0,0)	0 (0,0)	0.3958
Other outpatient visits (specialty clinics)	93.6	90.3	10 (4, 21)	7 (3,15)	<0.0001
Total visits for pain	84.5	82.9	3 (1,6)	3 (1,5)	0.0362
Total visits for 2003¶	96.3	93.2	17 (8,32)	11 (5,23)	<0.0001

*FY 2003 is fiscal year 2003 beginning October 1, 2002 through September 30, 2003.

^†Percent based on a total of 406 women and a total of 812 men.

^‡Q1 represents lower quartile, Q3 represents higher quartile.

^§Distributions of number of visits compared using the Wilcoxon rank sum test.

^¸For substance abuse, military sexual trauma, and PTSD, because of only few subjects attending these clinics, a Pearson chi-square test was performed to examine relationship between sex and attending the clinic at least once in FY 2003. Exact P values are given.

^¶No visits recorded in FY 2003 for 15 women and 55 men.