Table 5.

Patient Visits to Their Family Physician by Cancer Phase and Pattern of Care^a

	Pattern of Care
Cancer Phase	No Family Physician	Sequential	Parallel	Shared Care	PValueb
Primary treatment	–	0.00	0.89 ± 1.38	2.25 ± 1.73	<.001
Stability	–	0.00	1.28 ± 1.26	2.54 ± 2.52	<.001
Progression/relapse	–	0.72 ± 0.00	1.33 ± 1.48	3.21 ± 3.27	.02
Advanced/terminal	–	0.67 ± 0.82	1.20 ± 1.81	2.37 ± 1.30	.02

Note: Values are mean ± standard deviation number of visits.

^a Values should not be compared from one cancer phase to another since duration of each phase was not equivalent.

^b From analysis of variance; compares, at each cancer phase, the mean number of visits to the family physician according to family physician patterns of care.