TABLE 2.

Practice characteristics of paediatricians and family physicians

Characteristic	Paediatricians (n=237)	Family physicians (n=300)	P
Well baby visits per month
Mean (SD)	97.2 (96.2)	18.7 (8.8)	<0.001*
Median (interquartile range)	70.0 (20–150)	15.0 (6–20)
ECC cases per month (%)
Never	5.2	19.1
One child every two months or less	39.2	64.4	<0.001†
One to three children per month	27.2	11.7
Three to five children per month	17.2	2.0
More than five children per month	11.2	2.7
Proportion of recent immigrant populations as patients
Mean, % (SD)	13.6 (16.6)	9.6 (17.2)	0.008‡
Median (interquartile range)	10.0 (5–20)	5.0 (1–10)
Proportion of non-English-/non-French-speaking populations as patients
Mean, % (SD)	23.1 (30.8)	11.9 (22.7)	<0.001‡
Median (interquartile range)	10.0 (5–20)	3.0 (1–10)
Patients’ ethnic origin (%)
Caucasian (50% to 100%)	71.7	84.2	0.001†
African-Canadian (0% to 50%)	92.4	96.0	0.264†
Asian-Canadian (0% to 50%)	89.5	94.0	0.947†
First Nations, Inuit or Métis (0% to 50%)	90.3	93.7	0.340†
Other (0% to 50%)	90.0	96.3	0.509†

^*Mann-Whitney U test;

^†χ² test;

^‡Student’s t test. ECC Early childhood caries