Table 3.
Descriptive statistics
| CHC | FFS | FHN | HSO | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Patient profile n |
1122 |
816 |
1015 |
439 |
| Age (years) |
46(17) |
49 (17) |
51 (16) |
51 (17) |
| % Sex female |
73 (45) |
71 (45) |
67 (47) |
59 (49) |
| % Insured in Ontario |
92 (28) |
96 (20) |
97 (18) |
97 (18) |
| % Ethnicity white |
84 (37) |
91 (29) |
96 (19) |
96 (19) |
| % Born in Canada |
70 (46) |
74 (44) |
86 (35) |
83 (37) |
| Duration in Canada (immigrants only) |
19 (17) |
32 (17) |
38 (17) |
37 (15) |
| % Household with income greater than LICO |
73 (45) |
90 (30) |
91 (29) |
91 (29) |
| % High school graduate |
73 (44) |
83 (38) |
81 (39) |
81 (39) |
| % whose main provider is a Nurse Practitioner |
21 (41) |
0 (5) |
0 (0) |
2 (15) |
|
Practice characteristics |
|
|
|
|
| n |
32 |
21 |
20 |
11 |
| EMR exists |
7 |
3 |
10 |
2 |
| Patients per physician and nurse practitioner |
764 (472) |
1830 (1252) |
1282 (804) |
1527 (811) |
| Booking interval for routine visit (minutes) |
24.69 (4.24) |
13 (1.99) |
14.02 (2.53) |
13.18 (3.54) |
| # Family Physicians (FTE) |
3.41 (.85) |
3.43 (1.75) |
4.41 (1.75) |
2.95 (1.42) |
| # Nurse Practitioners (FTE) |
2.89 (1.94) |
0.72 (1.11) |
2.51 (2.12) |
1.41 (1.24) |
| % existing Allied Health Professionals |
28 |
3 |
3 |
6 |
| % with Nearest hospital > 10 km |
7 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
| Rurality index |
11.33 (15.11) |
9.91 (20.05) |
21.80 (25.79) |
9.12 (11.01) |
| Practice shares revenues |
- |
1 |
4 |
8 |
|
Family physician profile n |
166 |
42 |
44 |
42 |
| Years since graduation (as of 2006) |
19.96 (6.6) |
20.61 (7.15) |
23.53 (6.61) |
28.61 (9.94) |
| % Female providers |
57.4 (35.4) |
44.7 (44.6) |
35 (40.6) |
20 (37.6) |
| % Provider foreign trained |
8 (13) |
12 (27) |
2 (10) |
12 (30) |
| % Provider with CFPC degree | 78.88 (45) | 67 (47) | 65 (48) | 60 (49) |
LICO, Low income cutoff; EMR, Electronic medical records.
Each column reports the mean value, with standard deviation in the parentheses.