Table 2.

Comparison of 2008-2009 and 2017-2018 fiscal years of community-based FP characteristics in British Columbia

CHARACTERISTIC	FISCAL YEAR
CHARACTERISTIC	2008-2009, N=4060	2017-2018, N=4796
Years in practice, %
• <10	19.0	24.6
• 10-19	28.9	20.7
• 20-29	28.1	27.2
• ≥30	24.1	27.5
Practitioner gender,^* %
• Female	35.4	44.2
• Male	64.6	55.8
Location of FP, %
• Canada	68.7	63.1
• Outside of Canada	29.4	34.5
• Unknown	1.8	2.4
Community, %
• Urban (MIZ 1-3)	86.5	86.7
• Rural (MIZ 4-7)	13.5	13.3
Service volume, mean (SD)
• No. of days billed	221.67 (68.21)	210.28 (68.54)
• No. of days billed in outpatient location	187.71 (64.96)	174.61 (66.49)
• No. of all patients seen in outpatient setting	1786.50 (1294.18)	1504.23 (1165.83)
• No. of all patient contacts^{^†} in outpatient setting	4752.13 (2985.33)	4023.83 (2819.72)

MIZ—metropolitan influence zone.
↵* Based on College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia database, unclear if this represents gender.¹⁶
↵† One patient contact is a single episode of care.