Table 2. Prevalence of conventional health care use in the past 12 months according to the telephone interviews from Swiss Health Survey 2012 and 2017.
2017 (N = 22,134a) | 2012 (N = 21,597a) | p-value | |||
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N (unweighted %) | weighted % (95% CI) | N (unweighted %) | weighted % (95% CI) | ||
General practitioner | 15136 (71.5%) | 70.7% (69.9–71.5) | 14047 (67.5%) | 66.6% (65.7–67.5) | <0.001 |
Other medical specialists | 9055 (42.8%) | 43.1% (42.3–44.0) | 7746 (37.2%) | 36.5% (35.6–37.4) | <0.001 |
N, number; CI, confidence interval
aRepresentative sample of the general population > 15 years old in Switzerland