Family Physician Pattern of Care by Cancer Phase
Cancer Phase | ||||||
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Pattern of Care | Diagnosis (N=395) | Primary Treatment (n=118) | Stability (n=238) | Progression/Relapse (n=50) | Advanced/Terminal (n=39) | PValuea |
Note: Values are percentages of patients. | ||||||
a From the Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel test; compares variation of each family physician pattern of care across cancer phases. | ||||||
No family physician | 7.8 | 8.5 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 5.1 | .31 |
Sequential | 11.6 | 12.7 | 3.8 | 2.0 | 18.0 | <.001 |
Parallel | 64.6 | 54.2 | 55.9 | 62.0 | 23.1 | <.001 |
Shared | 16.0 | 24.6 | 36.1 | 32.0 | 53.8 | <.001 |