Specialty | No. of clinics | No. of patients | % of total cost represented by pharmacy cost (mean ± sd) | Correlation between costs including and excluding pharmacy costs1) |
---|---|---|---|---|
General clinics | 4,695 | 3,807,917 | 32.04 ± 23.84 | 0.99 |
Internal medicine | 3,611 | 4,852,887 | 38.23 ± 25.23 | 0.87 |
Pediatrics | 2,128 | 2,333,778 | 26.18 ± 19.80 | 0.99 |
Otorhinolaryngology | 1,737 | 2,561,254 | 24.10 ± 15.40 | 0.99 |
Orthopedic surgery | 1,725 | 1,585,045 | 20.23 ± 21.56 | 0.99 |
Obstetrics & gynecology | 1,604 | 873,524 | 21.09 ± 20.82 | 0.98 |
Ophthalmology | 1,207 | 1,515,235 | 23.38 ± 17.31 | 0.97 |
General surgery | 1,193 | 794,618 | 27.65 ± 23.32 | 0.97 |
Family medicine | 1,055 | 1,009,541 | 34.11 ± 23.20 | 0.95 |
Urology | 888 | 581,503 | 30.82 ± 23.46 | 0.90 |
Dermatology | 803 | 779,600 | 29.02 ± 21.96 | 0.93 |
Psychiatry | 708 | 308,835 | 19.00 ± 27.05 | 0.99 |
Anesthesiology | 588 | 296,653 | 28.90 ± 25.95 | 0.99 |
Neurosurgery | 362 | 298,801 | 27.49 ± 25.29 | 0.99 |
Rehabilitation medicine | 276 | 158,182 | 27.17 ± 26.74 | 0.99 |
Diagnostic radiology | 244 | 156,622 | 10.61 ± 21.37 | 0.96 |
Neurology | 132 | 104,304 | 41.56 ± 28.60 | 0.92 |
Thoracic surgery | 82 | 64,099 | 31.97 ± 23.83 | 0.97 |
Plastic surgery | 74 | 6,251 | 13.22 ± 20.15 | 0.98 |
Total | 23,112 | 22,088,649 | 29.76 ± 23.80 | 0.95 |