Table 2 Number of medical consultations and patients’ characteristics according to each medical category in the study sample. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2015 – 2018
Medical category | Number of doctors N (%) | Consultations N (%) | SDI mean (SD) | Patients age mean (SD) | Consultations according to sex – N (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Women | Men | |||||
Generalists | 734 (76.1) | 1.932.297 (66.4) | 0.573 (0.03) | 40.3 (24.0) | 1.267.756 (65.6) | 664.541 (34.4) |
Family physicians | 231 (23.9) | 976.567 (33.6) | 0.581 (0.03) | 40.71 (23.1) | 645.175 (66.1) | 331.392 (33.1) |