Table 2.
First health professional seen for caregiver’s concern about their child
| PROVIDER TYPE | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOCATION | FAMILY PHYSICIAN % (n) | PAEDIATRICIAN % (n) | OTHER* % (n) | MISSING % (n) | TOTAL % (n) |
| Large urban Alberta (AB) | 25.0 (22) | 47.7 (42) | 23.9 (21) | 3.4 (3) | 100 (88) |
| Large urban Ontario (ON) | 46.3 (31) | 35.8 (24) | 13.4 (9) | 4.5 (3) | 100 (67) |
| Small urban/rural AB | 53.3 (24) | 31.1 (14) | 11.1 (5) | 4.4 (2) | 100 (45) |
| Small urban/rural ON | 55.0 (11) | 15.0 (3) | 30.0 (6) | 0.0 (0) | 100 (20) |
| Missing location | 53.8 (7) | 38.5 (5) | 7.7 (1) | 0.0 (0) | 100 (13) |
| All areas | 40.8 (95) | 37.8 (88) | 18.0 (42) | 3.4 (8) | 100 (233) |
*
“Other” includes professionals such as speech and language pathologists, nurses, psychologists