Types of Visits and Frequency of Reappointments by Physician Specialty (Specialty Care Visits Only)
Visit Characteristics | Medical Specialists No. (%) | Surgical Specialists No. (%) | Obstetrician- Gynecologists No. (%) | Psychiatrists No. (%) | All Visits No. (%) |
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Note: All overall differences between specialties statistically significant at the defined α = .05. All differences for referred and not referred visits statistically significant for all types of visits, shared care, and reappointments, except for reappointments for medical specialist and psychiatrists. | |||||
Type of visit | |||||
New patient | |||||
Referred | 50,432,210 (38.2) | 70,200,541 (38.5) | 7,759,568 (33.6) | 3,193,437 (18.9) | 13,1585,756 (37.2) |
Not referred | 30,923,570 (10.9) | 32,540,316 (10.4) | 11,682,421 (7.7) | 2,644,147 (4.3) | 77,790,454 (9.6) |
Overall | 81,355,780 (19.5) | 102,740,857 (20.7) | 19,441,989 (11.1) | 5,837,584 (7.5) | 209,376,210 (18.0) |
Known patient, new problem | |||||
Referred | 20,949,555 (15.9) | 62,697,838 (34.4) | 4,183,533 (18.1) | 1,615,124 (9.6) | 8,944,6050 (25.3) |
Not referred | 55,484,409 (19.5) | 135,564,474 (43.3) | 31,519,810 (20.7) | 1,791,859 (2.9) | 224,360,552 (27.6) |
Overall | 76,433,964 (18.3) | 198,262,312 (40.0) | 35,703,343 (20.4) | 3,406,983 (4.4) | 313,806,602 (26.9) |
Known patient, known problem: recurrence | |||||
Referred | 9,040,755 (6.9) | 9,989,434 (5.5) | 506,161 (2.2) | 1,739,320 (10.3) | 2,1275,670 (6.0) |
Not referred | 23,842,104 (8.4) | 23,568,943 (7.5) | 3,543,953 (2.3) | 7,786,750 (12.7) | 5,8741,750 (7.2) |
Overall | 32,882,859 (7.9) | 33,558,377 (6.8) | 4,050,114 (2.3) | 9,526,070 (12.2) | 8,0017,420 (6.9) |
Known patient, known problem, routine or preventive | |||||
Referred | 50,241,347 (38.1) | 36,542,497 (20.0) | 9,585,362 (41.5) | 10,167,954 (60.2) | 10,6537,160 (30.1) |
Not referred | 168,094,186 (59.0) | 115,099,839 (36.7) | 103,209,997 (67.8) | 47,337,068 (77.5) | 433,741,090 (53.4) |
Overall | 218,335,533 (52.4) | 151,642,336 (30.6) | 112,795,359 (64.3) | 57,505,022 (73.7) | 540,278,250 (46.3) |
Other | |||||
Referred | 1,266,203 (1.0) | 2,836,052 (1.6) | 1,058,081 (4.6) | 170,351 (1.0) | 5,330,687 (1.5) |
Not referred | 6,458,490 (2.3) | 6,947,893 (2.2) | 2,299,805 (1.5) | 1,537,175 (2.5) | 17,243,363 (2.1) |
Overall | 7,724,693 (1.9) | 9,783,945 (2.0) | 3,357,886 (1.9) | 1,707,526 (2.2) | 22,574,050 (1.9) |
Shared care | |||||
Referred | 72,734,619 (56.0) | 83,164,843 (46.4) | 7,942,808 (37.4) | 3,697,267 (22.3) | 167,711,222 (48.0) |
Not referred | 78,080,308 (28.1) | 65,704,184 (21.4) | 33,472,995 (22.5) | 8,289,358 (14.0) | 186,378,057 (23.2) |
Overall | 150,814,927 (37.0) | 148,869,027 (30.7) | 41,415,803 (24.3) | 11,986,625 (15.8) | 354,089,279 (30.7) |
Reappointments | |||||
Referred | 96,390,830 (73.1) | 124,589,758 (68.4) | 13,434,294 (58.2) | 15,426,153 (91.4) | 250,997,151 (70.6) |
Not referred | 217,382,015 (76.3) | 226,893,374 (72.3) | 107,602,751 (70.7) | 56,909,990 (93.1) | 617,375,536 (75.1) |
Overall | 313,772,845 (75.3) | 351,483,132 (70.9) | 121,037,045 (69.0) | 72,336,143 (92.8) | 858,629,165 (73.6) |
Overall | |||||
Referred | 131,930,070 (100) | 182,266,362 (100) | 23,092,705 (100) | 16,886,186 (100) | 354,175,323 (100) |
Not referred | 284,802,759 (100) | 313,721,465 (100) | 152,255,986 (100) | 61,096,999 (100) | 811,877,209 (100) |
Overall | 416,732,829 (100) | 495,987,827 (100) | 175,348,691 (100) | 77,983,185 (100) | 1,166,052,532 (100) |