Non-oncology physician visits after diagnosis of cancer in children

BMC Primary Care

Table 3 Proportion of patients and controls with at least one physician visit, and mean (SD) number of visits of those with a visit by time since diagnosis

Visits		Yr. 1			Yr2			Yr3			Yr4			Yr5			p-trend
Visits		N	%	No. Visits	N	%	No. Visits	N	%	No. Visits	N	%	No. Visits	N	%	No. Visits
All visits	Patients	756	100^a	29.9 (18.5)^a	735	98^a	15.0 (13.9)^a	722	97^a	12.1 (10.9)^a	709	96^a	9.7 (8.9)^a	692	94^a	8.4 (8.0)^a	<.001
All visits	Controls	6290	85	5.8 (5.4)	6182	84	5.3 (4.7)	5982	82	5.0 (4.5)	5889	81	4.9 (4.8)	5763	80	4.7 (4.8)	<.001
Family physician	Patients	737	97^a	10.1 (9.9)^a	683	91^a	7.7 (9.2)^a	671	90^a	6.8 (7.2)^a	668	91^a	5.4 (4.8)^a	624	85^a	5.0 (4.5)^a	<.001
Family physician	Controls	6143	83	5.0 (4.4)	6029	82	4.5 (3.8)	5824	79	4.2 (3.6)	5712	79	4.2 (3.9)	1720	78	4.0 (3.7)	<.001
Non-cancer	Patients	739	98^a	20.4 (16.2)^a	658	88^a	8.7 (10.8)^a	619	83^a	6.7 (8.1)^a	578	78^a	5.6 (7.5)^a	557	76^a	4.8 (6.2)^a	<.001
specialist	Controls	2158	29	2.8 (3.4)	2051	28	2.7 (3.1)	2014	28	2.7 (2.8)	1918	26	2.7 (3.1)	1866	26	2.7 (3.8)	<.001

No. visits is the mean number (standard deviation) of visits of those who had at least one visit
^aAll comparisons between patients and controls are statistically significant (p < 0.001)

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