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Table 3 Descriptive statistics

From: Practice size, financial sharing and quality of care

 

CHC

FFS

FHN

HSO

Patient profile n

1122

816

1015

439

Age (years)

46(17)

49 (17)

51 (16)

51 (17)

% Sex female

73 (45)

71 (45)

67 (47)

59 (49)

% Insured in Ontario

92 (28)

96 (20)

97 (18)

97 (18)

% Ethnicity white

84 (37)

91 (29)

96 (19)

96 (19)

% Born in Canada

70 (46)

74 (44)

86 (35)

83 (37)

Duration in Canada (immigrants only)

19 (17)

32 (17)

38 (17)

37 (15)

% Household with income greater than LICO

73 (45)

90 (30)

91 (29)

91 (29)

% High school graduate

73 (44)

83 (38)

81 (39)

81 (39)

% whose main provider is a Nurse Practitioner

21 (41)

0 (5)

0 (0)

2 (15)

Practice characteristics

    

n

32

21

20

11

EMR exists

7

3

10

2

Patients per physician and nurse practitioner

764 (472)

1830 (1252)

1282 (804)

1527 (811)

Booking interval for routine visit (minutes)

24.69 (4.24)

13 (1.99)

14.02 (2.53)

13.18 (3.54)

# Family Physicians (FTE)

3.41 (.85)

3.43 (1.75)

4.41 (1.75)

2.95 (1.42)

# Nurse Practitioners (FTE)

2.89 (1.94)

0.72 (1.11)

2.51 (2.12)

1.41 (1.24)

% existing Allied Health Professionals

28

3

3

6

% with Nearest hospital > 10 km

7

2

2

2

Rurality index

11.33 (15.11)

9.91 (20.05)

21.80 (25.79)

9.12 (11.01)

Practice shares revenues

-

1

4

8

Family physician profile n

166

42

44

42

Years since graduation (as of 2006)

19.96 (6.6)

20.61 (7.15)

23.53 (6.61)

28.61 (9.94)

% Female providers

57.4 (35.4)

44.7 (44.6)

35 (40.6)

20 (37.6)

% Provider foreign trained

8 (13)

12 (27)

2 (10)

12 (30)

% Provider with CFPC degree

78.88 (45)

67 (47)

65 (48)

60 (49)

  1. LICO, Low income cutoff; EMR, Electronic medical records.
  2. Each column reports the mean value, with standard deviation in the parentheses.