Table 2.
Physicians per specialty across each user group.
| Specialty | Low use: 0 to 0.5, n (%) |
Same use: >0.5 to <1.25, n (%) |
High use: 1.25 to <6.0, n (%) |
Very high use: ≥6.0, n (%) |
|
| Family medicine (n=13,244) | 2366 (17.9) | 9715 (73.4) | 1042 (7.9) | 121 (0.9) | |
| Medicine | |||||
| Emergency medicine (n=230) | 57 (24.8) | 126 (54.8) | 41 (17.8) | 6 (2.6) | |
| Internal medicine (n=999) | 233 (23.3) | 604 (60.5) | 147 (14.7) | 15 (1.5) | |
| Infectious diseases (n=148) | 27 (18.2) | 101 (68.2) | 20 (13.5) | 0 (0) | |
| Critical care (n=99) | 29 (29.3) | 53 (53.5) | 13 (13.1) | ≤5 (≤5.1) | |
| Endocrinology (n=269) | 18 (6.7) | 215 (79.9) | 34 (12.6) | ≤5 (≤1.9) | |
| Nuclear medicine (n=48) | 15 (31.3) | 24 (50.0) | 6 (12.5) | ≤5 (≤10.4) | |
| Hematology (n=217) | 23 (10.6) | 164 (75.6) | 27 (12.4) | ≤5 (≤2.3) | |
| Cardiology (n=684) | 77 (11.3) | 527 (77.0) | 78 (11.4) | ≤5 (≤0.7) | |
| Respirology (n=308) | 32 (10.4) | 237 (76.9) | 35 (11.4) | ≤5 (≤1.6) | |
| Geriatric medicine (n=152) | 29 (19.1) | 105 (69.1) | 16 (10.5) | ≤5 (≤3.3) | |
| Rheumatology (n=213) | 19 (8.9) | 172 (80.8) | 22 (10.3) | 0 (0) | |
| Anesthesiology (n=1179) | 480 (40.7) | 597 (50.6) | 101 (8.6) | ≤5 (≤0.4) | |
| Nephrology (n=242) | 23 (9.5) | 198 (81.8) | 20 (8.3) | ≤5 (≤2.1) | |
| Clinical immunology (n=84) | 22 (26.2) | 56 (66.7) | 6 (7.1) | 0 (0) | |
| Gastroenterology (n=345) | 39 (11.3) | 281 (81.4) | 24 (7.0) | ≤5 (≤1.4) | |
| Obstetrics and gynecology (n=808) | 98 (12.1) | 659 (81.6) | 45 (5.6) | 6 (0.7) | |
| Other specialties | |||||
| Psychiatry (n=2061) | 328 (15.9) | 1326 (64.3) | 378 (18.3) | 29 (1.4) | |
| Diagnostic radiology (n=624) | 179 (28.7) | 355 (56.9) | 84 (13.5) | 6 (1.0) | |
| Medical oncology (n=269) | 34 (12.6) | 200 (74.3) | 35 (13.0) | 0 (0) | |
| Pediatrics (n=1487) | 395 (26.6) | 938 (63.1) | 146 (9.8) | 8 (0.5) | |
| Radiation oncology (n=211) | 14 (6.6) | 178 (84.4) | 19 (9.0) | 0 (0) | |
| Neurology (n=410) | 53 (12.9) | 321 (78.3) | 33 (8.0) | ≤5 (≤1.2) | |
| Physical medicine and rehabilitation (n=211) | 48 (22.7) | 146 (69.2) | 16 (7.6) | ≤5 (≤2.4) | |
| Dermatology (n=236) | 52 (22.0) | 173 (73.3) | 11 (4.7) | 0 (0) | |
| Surgery (n=2868) | 536 (18.7) | 2212 (77.1) | 104 (3.6) | 16 (0.6) | |
| Remaining smaller specialties (n=384) | 91 (23.7) | 246 (64.1) | 43 (11.2) | 4 (1.0) | |
| Miscellaneous (n=353) | 105 (29.7) | 69 (19.5) | 126 (35.7) | 53 (15.0) | |