Figure 2.

Referral and diagnosis (patient record data). A, Responses to the study question “What was the specialty of the referring physician?” Probability test pairwise comparisons were significantly (P < 0.05) different versus the corresponding category in ^†the US, ^‡Europe, ^§Argentina, or ^¶Japan. All significances are Bonferroni corrected for multiple comparisons. B, Responses to the study question “Which of the provided facility types best describes where this patient received his/her CTEPH diagnosis?” The “other” category was classified as follows: Europe: 61% academic/teaching hospital, 27% general hospital, 9% office, 4% private hospital; Argentina: 39% academic/teaching hospital, 27% private hospital, 23% general hospital, 11% office; Japan: 70% public hospital, 13% private hospital, 9% national hospital, 9% other. AR: Argentina; CTEPH: chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension; EU: Europe; FP: family practitioner: GP: general practitioner; JP: Japan; PCP: primary care physician; PH: pulmonary hypertension; US: United States.