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Table 3 Distribution and proportion of outpatient health care visits between April 1, 2009 and March 31, 2012 (all visits, HIV visits and non-HIV visits) by specialist category and HIV caseload

From: A cross-sectional, population-based study of HIV physicians and outpatient health care use by people with HIV in Ontario

Physician specialty

Physician HIV caseload

All visits

HIV visits

Non-HIV visits

Proportion HIV visits/all visits

  

(n)

(%)

(n)

(%)

(n)

(%)

(%)

Family Medicine

Low

54,712

13.5%

1,246

0.9%

53,466

19.8%

2.3%

 

Medium

62,541

15.4%

3,841

2.8%

58,700

21.8%

6.1%

 

High

10,0597

24.8%

68,503

50.2%

32,094

11.9%

68.1%

 

All

217,850

53.6%

73,590

53.9%

144,260

53.5%

33.8%

Internal Medicine

Low

2,106

0.5%

75

0.1%

2,031

0.8%

3.6%

 

Medium

3,872

1.0%

1,007

0.7%

2,865

1.1%

26.0%

 

High

14,110

3.5%

12,060

8.8%

2,050

0.8%

85.5%

 

All

20,088

4.9%

13,142

9.6%

6,946

2.6%

65.4%

Infectious Disease

Low

118

0.03%

36

0.03%

82

0.03%

30.5%

 

Medium

1,632

0.4%

1,276

0.9%

356

0.1%

78.2%

 

High

49,038

12.1%

43,316

31.7%

5,722

2.1%

88.3%

 

All

50,788

12.5%

44,628

32.7%

6,160

2.3%

87.9%

Other specialist

Low

36,465

9.0%

293

0.2%

36,172

13.4%

0.8%

 

Medium

47,239

11.6%

894

0.7%

46,345

17.2%

1.9%

 

High

33,981

8.4%

4,043

3.0%

29,938

11.1%

11.9%

 

All

117,685

29.0%

5,230

3.8%

112,455

41.7%

4.4%

Total

 

406,411

100%

136,590

100%

269,821

100%

33.6%

  1. Caseload volume categories by number of patients in HIV cohort seen during the 3-year study period: low (≤5 patients), medium (6-49 patients) and high (50+ patients).