. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 1.

Published in final edited form as: Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2016 Jul;155(1):22–27. doi: 10.1177/0194599815627641

Table 2.

Differences between patients with thyroid disease by practice type (academic vs. community) and cancer status.

	Cancer Diagnosis			Non-Cancer Diagnosis
Site Type	Academic (n=9)	Community (n=7)	P-Stat	Academic (n=9)	Community (n=7)	P-Stat
% Patients with Cancer	45%	19%	<0.001	-	-
% Visits for Cancer Patients	49%	22%	<0.001	-	-
Unique Patients	1,154	237		1,386	1,023
Unique Visits	2,944	904		3,057	3,232
Visits per Patient Mean (95% CI)	2.6 (2.4–2.7)	3.8 (3.4–4.2)	<0.001	2.2 (2.1–2.3)	3.2 (2.8–3.4)	<0.001
Procedures per Patient Mean (95% CI)	3.5 (3.3–3.6)	4.2 (3.8–4.6)	<0.001	3.1 (2.9–3.2)	3.2 (3.0–3.3)	0.373

Only includes practices with >= 20 thyroid patients (n = 16 sites). The p values represent comparison of measures between academic and community cohorts within each diagnostic group.