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Figures
- Figure 1.
Total number of patients with and without registered PCPs who visited the URH, UCC, and RCH EDs during the 2009 calendar year
ED—emergency department, PCP—primary care provider, RCH—rural community hospital, UCC—urgent care centre, URH—urban regional hospital.
- Figure 2.
Frequent ED attenders (4 or more visits in a year) at all sites with and without registered PCPs
ED—emergency department, PCP—primary care provider.
Tables
CHARACTERISTIC URH (N = 31 395), N (%) UCC (N = 26 230), N (%) RCH (N = 13 312), N (%) TOTAL* (N = 59 803), N (%) Total number of ED visits • 1 22 078 (70.3) 18 143 (69.2) 7303 (54.9) 33 862 (56.6) • 2–3 7657 (24.4) 6654 (25.4) 4190 (31.5) 19 174 (32.1) • ≥ 4 1660 (5.3) 1433 (5.5) 1819 (13.7) 6767 (11.3) Sex • Female 16 045 (51.1) 13 857 (52.8) 6845 (51.8) 30 705 (51.4) • Male 15 343 (48.9) 12 369 (47.2) 6370 (48.2) 28 994 (48.6) Primary care provider • Yes 11 501 (36.6) 9727 (37.1) 11 901 (89.4) 27 692 (46.5) • No 19 894 (63.4) 16 503 (62.9) 1411 (10.6) 31 841 (53.5) Age, y • < 20 7138 (22.7) 7308 (27.9) 3968 (29.8) 15 440 (25.8) • 20–49 12 738 (40.6) 12 017 (45.8) 5086 (38.2) 24 785 (41.4) • 50–74 8052 (25.6) 5711 (21.8) 3297 (24.8) 14 682 (24.6) • ≥ 75 3466 (11.0) 1192 (4.5) 961 (7.2) 4894 (8.2) ED—emergency department, RCH—rural community hospital, UCC—urgent care centre, URH—urban regional hospital.
↵* The totals from the 3 EDs do not add up to the overall total because 18.6% of the participants attended more than 1 of the EDs.
VARIABLE ODDS RATIO (95% CI) P VALUE Family physician 1.56 (1.47–1.66) < .001 Urban vs rural 0.92 (0.86–0.98) .014 Male vs female 0.76 (0.72–0.80) < .001 Age, y • < 20 vs 20–49 0.95 (1.02–1.18) .119 • 50–74 vs 20–49 0.86 (0.80–0.94) < .001 • ≥ 75 vs 20–49 1.10 (1.01–1.02) .035
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