Table 2.
Characteristics of the medical encounters in each group, depending on whether the encounter addressed skin cancer issues, regular dermatology issues or non-dermatology issues
| Skin cancer N=123 |
Regular dermatology N=1521 |
Non-dermatology N=15375 |
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| n; % | Mean, SD | n; % | Mean, SD | n; % | Mean, SD | p Value* | |
| Encounter duration (min) | 18.4; 8.3 | 17.8; 8.3 | 17.1; 8.6 | <0.001 | |||
| Number of problems | 3.7; 2.0 | 3.5; 2.1 | 2.7; 1.7 | <0.001 | |||
| Practice location | |||||||
| Rural | 23; 18.7 | 315; 20.7 | 3063; 19.9 | ||||
| Semirural | 24; 19.5 | 359; 23.6 | 3687; 24.0 | 0.59 | |||
| Urban | 76; 61.8 | 847; 55.7 | 8625; 56.1 | ||||
| Context | |||||||
| Office | 117; 95.1 | 1391; 91.5 | 14291; 92.9 | 0.017 | |||
| Home visit | 6; 4.9 | 130; 8.5 | 1084; 7.1 | ||||
*Multivariate model adjusted for gender, age, sex, suffering from a chronic disease, socioeconomic status.