Table 2.
Patients’ characteristics comparing HCES respondents in interprofessional teams to respondents in non-interprofessional teams in the year they responded to the survey
| Interprofessional Teams | Non-interprofessional Teams | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patients total | 12,988 | 52.7 | 11,648 | 47.3 |
| Sex No. (%) | ||||
| Female | 7678 | 57.6 | 6856 | 57.7 |
| Age group, yr. No. (%) | ||||
| 16–44 | 3819 | 33.0 | 3653 | 34.9 |
| 45–64 | 5272 | 42.4 | 4661 | 41.4 |
| 65–84 | 3602 | 23.1 | 3071 | 22.1 |
| 84+ | 295 | 1.5 | 263 | 1.6 |
| Missing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| New OHIP registrants (within 10 years) No. (%) | 355 | 3.1 | 460 | 5.1 |
| Income quintile, No. (%) | ||||
| 1 (low) | 2089 | 13.8 | 1764 | 13.9 |
| 2 | 2468 | 18.6 | 2228 | 17.9 |
| 3 | 2697 | 21.2 | 2295 | 19.6 |
| 4 | 2822 | 22.8 | 2550 | 22.0 |
| 5 (high) | 2888 | 23.3 | 2784 | 26.4 |
| Missing | 24 | 0.3 | 27 | 0.2 |
| Rurality Index of Ontario, No. (%) | ||||
| Largest Urban (0) | 3759 | 33.6 | 4000 | 42.6 |
| Large urban (1 to 9) | 2388 | 17.1 | 4078 | 29.4 |
| Small-urban (10 to 39) | 4823 | 34.2 | 2737 | 21.7 |
| Rural (≥40) | 1892 | 14.4 | 763 | 5.8 |
| Missing | 126 | 0.7 | 70 | 0.4 |
| Resource utilization band (RUB), No. (%) | ||||
| 1 | 629 | 5.4 | 471 | 4.3 |
| 2 | 2128 | 17.7 | 1802 | 16.5 |
| 3 | 6746 | 51.0 | 6417 | 54.6 |
| 4 | 2031 | 15.0 | 1869 | 15.4 |
| 5 (very high user) | 823 | 5.4 | 674 | 5.1 |
| Non-user and Missing | 631 | 5.5 | 415 | 4.2 |
| Patients with Chronic disease | ||||
| 2 + Co-morbidity No. (%) | 6096 | 42.6 | 5628 | 44.3 |
| 3+ comorbidities No. (%) | 3482 | 23.3 | 3207 | 24.5 |
| 4+ comorbidities No. (%) | 1828 | 11.9 | 2686 | 12.4 |
| 5+ comorbidities No. (%) | 894 | 5.8 | 791 | 6.1 |