FIGURE 1.

Mean visits per person to each physician type by year of follow-up and province. The analyses include only individuals with complete data for each follow-up year. (A) Primary care. Breast cancer–specific = visits having a diagnosis code corresponding to the following categories of diagnosis codes within billings or claims data: breast neoplasms, benign neoplasms and carcinoma in situ, and infectious and inflammatory conditions of the breast. In Nova Scotia and Ontario, anxiety and lymph system–related conditions were used, as were breast-related procedure codes in Ontario. (B) Oncology. In Nova Scotia, visits to a surgeon included all visits to a physician with a main speciality of general surgery as shown in the billing or claims data. In other provinces, visits to a surgeon included only visits to a surgeon who performed at least 1 breast cancer–related procedure during the study period. (C) Other.