Table 5.
All locations
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Major urban centres
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Non-major urban centres
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Rural centres
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Variable | Enhanced fee-for-service | Capitation | Enhanced fee-for-service | Capitation | Enhanced fee-for-service | Capitation | Enhanced fee-for-service | Capitation |
No. of visits, mean (SD) | 0.4 (1.2) | 0.5 (1.3) | 0.3 (1.1) | 0.3 (0.9) | 0.6 (1.4) | 0.6 (1.3) | 0.9 (2.0) | 1.0 (1.9) |
Ratio of semiurgent or nonurgent visits to urgent visits* | 0.9 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 2.6 | 4.8 |
Ratio of after-hours to regular-hour visits† | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
% of patients who visited emergency department during past 6 months‡ | 23.2 | 27.7 | 20.3 | 20.6 | 30.6 | 30.3 | 39.2 | 43.3 |
No. of visits in 2005/06, mean (SD) | 0.48 (1.07) | 0.49 (1.21) | 0.31 (0.94) | 0.32 (0.89) | 0.54 (1.25) | 0.52 (1.18) | 0.80 (1.84) | 0.93 (1.82) |
No. of visits in 2003/04, mean (SD) | 0.37 (1.05) | 0.48 (1.21) | 0.30 (0.90) | 0.32 (0.88) | 0.54 (1.31) | 0.52 (1.24) | 0.84 (1.80) | 0.90 (1.79) |
Note: SD = standard deviation.
Semiurgent and nonurgent visits were those rated as 4 and 5 on the Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale; urgent visits were those rated as 1, 2 or 3 on the scale.19
Visits during regular hours were those on weekdays from 9 am to 5 pm.
From October 2005 to March 2006.