Sociodemographic and geographic characteristics associated with patient visits to osteopathic physicians for primary care

Table 1 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey counts and national population estimates for patient visits, according to type of physician*

*NPE denotes national population estimate (in millions); SE, standard error (in millions) of the NPE. The NPEs and SEs were computed by applying the appropriate patient visit weights to the actual survey counts. Thus, the 134,369 completed surveys over the five-year period represented an estimated 4.6 billion ± 220 million patient visits throughout the United States in this period.
†The combined NPEs for family and general medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics exceeded the NPE for primary care because not all physicians in these specialties were primary care physicians.

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