Table 5.
Patient-reported timely access to care (same/next day) by patients’ characteristics identified at the year they have responded to the HCES
| Interprofessional Teams | Non-interprofessional Teams | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denominator | Weighted Percentage | Denominator | Weighted Percentage | |
| Overall self-reported timely Access to care | 6537 | 39.9 | 5901 | 39.1 |
| Sex | ||||
| Female | 4159 | 40.5 | 3681 | 39.6 |
| Males | 2378 | 38.8 | 2220 | 38.2 |
| Missing | 0 | – | 0 | – |
| Age group, yr. | ||||
| 16–44 | 1964 | 41.0 | 1840 | 38.1 |
| 45–64 | 2781 | 36.8 | 2467 | 38.1 |
| 65+ | 1680 | 44.5 | 1479 | 42.5 |
| Missing | 112 | 40.0 | 115 | 43.1 |
| New OHIP registrants (within 10 years) | ||||
| No | 6351 | 39.9 | 5659 | 38.6 |
| Yes | 180 | 36.7 | 238 | 47.1 |
| Income quintile | ||||
| 1 (low) | 1030 | 37.6 | 862 | 35.8 |
| 2 | 1239 | 39.7 | 1132 | 40.3 |
| 3 | 1340 | 41.1 | 1193 | 37.1 |
| 4 | 1419 | 38.9 | 1254 | 37.9 |
| 5 (high) | 1500 | 41.2 | 1445 | 42.2 |
| Missing | 9 | 29.3 | 15 | 32.9 |
| Rurality Index of Ontario | ||||
| Largest Urban (0) | 2010 | 42.8 | 2133 | 42.9 |
| Large urban (1 to 9) | 1276 | 42.2 | 2077 | 37.1 |
| Small-urban (10 to 39) | 2375 | 39.1 | 1312 | 36.1 |
| Rural (≥40) | 832 | 30.1 | 345 | 29.5 |
| Missing | 44 | 18.7 | 34 | 31.3 |
| Resource utilization band (RUB) | ||||
| 1 | 234 | 42.1 | 167 | 42.0 |
| 2 | 868 | 38.4 | 700 | 36.7 |
| 3 | 3625 | 39.5 | 3421 | 39.3 |
| 4 | 1172 | 42.6 | 1114 | 39.2 |
| 5 (very high user) | 508 | 40.5 | 425 | 41.7 |
| Non-user and Missing | 130 | 44.4 | 74 | 24.1 |
| Patients with Chronic disease | ||||
| 2 + Co-morbidity | ||||
| No | 3221 | 38.2 | 2817 | 37.8 |
| Yes | 3316 | 41.8 | 3084 | 40.4 |
| 3+ comorbidities | ||||
| No | 4602 | 40.0 | 4087 | 37.8 |
| Yes | 1935 | 39.4 | 1814 | 42.6 |
| 4+ comorbidities | ||||
| No | 5505 | 39.7 | 4931 | 38.6 |
| Yes | 1032 | 41.1 | 970 | 41.9 |
| 5+ comorbidities | ||||
| No | 6022 | 39.8 | 5444 | 38.8 |
| Yes | 515 | 40.8 | 457 | 43.1 |