Routine care provided by specialists to children and adolescents in the United States (2002-2006)

Valderas, Jose M; Starfield, Barbara; Forrest, Christopher B; Rajmil, Luis; Roland, Martin; Sibbald, Bonnie

doi:10.1186/1472-6963-9-221

BMC Health Services Research

Table 3 Type visits and frequency of reappointments by physician specialty group (specialty care visits only).

From: Routine care provided by specialists to children and adolescents in the United States (2002-2006)

		Medical Specialists			Surgical Specialists			Psychiatrists			All visits
		Referred	Non referred	*Overall*	Referred	Non referred	*Overall*	Referred	Non referred	*Overall*	Referred	Non referred	Overall
New patient	N	7,476,112	7,295,856	14,771,968	18,745,793	9,877,375	28,623,168	1,250,196	944,852	2,195,048	27,472,101	18,118,083	45,590,184
	%	40.0	18.1	25.0	51.2	17.9	31.2	23.6	5.3	9.5	45.3	16.0	26.2
Known patient, new problem	N	1,674,553	4,895,022	6,569,575	10,121,704	21,879,415	32,001,119	317,813	554,923	872,736	12,114,070	27,329,360	39,443,430
	%	9.0	12.1	11.1	27.6	39.7	34.9	6.0	3.1	3.8	20.0	24.1	22.7
Known patient, known Problem: recurrence	N	1,623,935	4,142,757	5,766,692	1,748,531	3,085,111	4,833,642	351,669	2,219,454	2,571,123	3,724,135	9,447,322	13,171,457
	%	8.7	10.3	9.8	4.8	5.6	5.3	6.6	12.5	11.1	6.1	8.3	7.6
Known patient, known problem: routine or preventive	N	7,644,382	22,611,827	30,256,209	5,605,670	18,996,051	24,601,721	3,279,692	13,759,243	17,038,935	16,529,744	55,367,121	71,896,865
	%	40.9	56.0	51.2	15.3	34.4	26.8	61.8	77.3	73.8	27.3	48.8	41.3
Other	N	261,137	1,446,391	1,707,528	398,573	1,337,952	1,736,525	106,193	316,253	422,446	765,903	3,100,596	3,866,499
	%	1.4	3.6	2.9	1.1	2.4	1.9	2.0	1.8	1.8	1.3	2.7	2.2
Shared care*	N	5,513,663	4,828,106	10,341,769	8,613,939	6,378,177	14,992,116	623,457	1,015,185	163,8642	14,751,059	12,221,468	26,972,527
	%	44.1	16.2	24.4	37.5	18.2	26.2	16.4	9.0	10.9	37.6	16.2	23.5
Reappointments	N	14,071,536	28,907,553	42,979,089	24,695,947	38,267,967	62,963,914	4,629,558	16,782,829	21,412,387	43,397,041	83,958,349	127,355,390
	%	75.3	71.6	72.8	67.4	69.4	68.6	87.3	94.7	92.7	71.6	74.1	73.2
Overall	N	18,680,119	40,391,853	59,071,972	36,620,271	55,175,904	91,796,175	5,305,563	17,794,725	23,100,288	60,605,953	113,362,482	173,968,435
	%	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100

* All overall differences between specialties statistically significant at the defined α level (0.05). All differences for referred and non referred visits statistically significant for all types of visits, shared care and reappointments, except for reappointments for medical specialist and psychiatrists.
*Information on shared care only available for 114.641.238 visits (65.6%)

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