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. 2021 Jan 13;157(2):1–8. doi: 10.1001/jamadermatol.2020.5173

Table 3. Clinician and Next-Day Appointment Availability.

Appointment No./Total No. (%) [95% CI] P value
Calls to PE-owned clinics Calls to control clinics
First appointment offered with an NPCa 201/395 (51) [46-56] 301/765 (39) [36-43] .01
Next-day appointmentb
Any clinician type 127/419 (30) [26-35] 163/765 (21) [19-24] .001
MD/DO onlya 61/395 (15) [12-19] 97/765 (13) [11-15] .16
Appointments
Available with NPCsa,c 267/335 (80) [75-84] 421/668 (63) [59-67] .001
Not available with MD/DOa 62/395 (16) [12-20] 48/765 (6) [5-8] <.001

Abbreviations: NPC, nonphysician clinicians; PE, private equity.

a

Denominator excludes 24 calls to 11 PE clinics without dermatologist availability according to their website.

b

For calls placed on Friday, February 28, 2020 (1.6% of all placed calls), Monday, March 2, 2020, was used to calculate next-day appointment availability.

c

To maintain consistency in our call script, we were not able to inquire about NPC availability on calls that offered a next-day appointment with a dermatologist. These calls (n = 61 and n = 97 for PE-owned and control, respectively) were thus excluded from the analysis of appointments available with NPCs.