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Table 2 Frequency of annual ambulatory care visits of the total population in Quebec, Canada for 2014–2015 (n = 5,316,830)

From: Does socio-economic status influence the effect of multimorbidity on the frequent use of ambulatory care services in a universal healthcare system? A population-based cohort study

Number of visits

Emergency departments

General practitioners

Specialist physicians

Total ambulatory

Prevalence in general population

Number of visits

% of all visits

Prevalence in general population

Number of visits

% of all visits

Prevalence in general population

Number of visits

% of all visits

Prevalence in general population

Number of visits

% of all visits

Total

100.0

2,204,450

100.0

100.0

11,781,829

100.0

100.0

13,725,842

100.0

100.0

27,712,121

100.0

0

76.6

0

0.0

28.3

0

0.0

43.0

0

0.0

15.8

0

0

1

14.4

766,810

34.8

22.9

1,216,639

10.3

16.2

865,991

6.3

14.0

745,871

2.7

2

5.0

527,506

23.9

16.8

1,786,668

15.2

10.7

1,135,866

8.3

12.3

1,302,652

4.7

3–6

3.6

715,805

32.5

25.5

5,374,522

45.6

19.3

4,197,906

30.6

30.9

6,971,824

25.2

7–9

0.1

113,227

5.1

4.0

1,661,263

14.1

5.0

2,094,487

15.2

11.1

4,665,355

16.8

10–13

0.3

47,312

2.1

1.8

1,037,985

8.8

2.9

1,750,128

12.8

7.7

4,611,015

16.6

14–16

0.0

12,949

0.6

0.4

343,356

2.9

1.1

843,888

6.1

3.1

2,446,768

8.8

≥ 17

0.0

20,841

1.0

0.3

361,396

3.1

1.8

2,837,576

20.7

5.1

6,968,636

25.2

  1. NOTE: Bold text for each ambulatory care service corresponds to the definition of frequent user. Frequent ED users represented 4.0% of the total population and consumed 41.3% of the total annual number of visits. Frequent GP users represented 6.5% of the total population and consumed 28.9% of the total annual number of visits. Frequent SP users represented 5.8% of the total population and consumed 39.6% of the total annual number of visits. Frequent users of total ambulatory care services represented 5.1% of the total population and consumed 25.2% of total ambulatory care services. Among the 6,968,636 visits made by frequent users of total ambulatory care services, 7.2% of visits were to an ED, 27.1% were to a GP and 65.7% were to a SP.