Table 2.

Number of patients who were usually able to see the same doctor, by sex, age, urgency of consultation, prior visit, and specific appointed doctor

Patient characteristics	Responders, n	Do you usually meet the same doctor?
		Yes,%	No,%	P-value
Sex				0.118
Female	58 934	62.8	37.2
Male	32 911	62.3	37.7
Age				≤0.001
<60 years	51 908	58.4	41.6
≥60 years	33 009	69.6	30.4
Urgency				≤0.001
Acute/less acute	49 404	58.7	41.3
Non-urgent	36 657	67.1	32.9
Visit in previous 12 monthsa				≤0.001
Yes	11 701	49.4	50.6
No	5019	55.2	44.8
Specific doctorb				≤0.001
Appointed	23 354	72.8	27.2
Not appointed	11 915	26.6	73.4

^aQuestion added to survey in 2009.

^bQuestion added to survey in 2005.