Table 1 Physician specialty and average number of claims per physician, 3-month period, January-March 2011
From: Mining rich health data from Canadian physician claims: features and face validity
Specialty | Number of Physicians | Number of claims | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Â | N | Mean | Median | IQR25 | IQR75 |
Total | 6,601 | 7,120,483 | 1,079 | 865 | 359 | 1,493 |
Family medicine | 3,449 | 4,585,486 | 1,330 | 1,161 | 600 | 1,804 |
Internal medicine | 795 | 548,523 | 690 | 546 | 285 | 934 |
Neurology | 106 | 43,335 | 409 | 332 | 226 | 495 |
Obstetrics and Gynecology | 176 | 195,078 | 1,108 | 1,106 | 504 | 1,455 |
Pediatrics | 382 | 196,968 | 516 | 330 | 135 | 689 |
Psychiatry | 395 | 358,956 | 909 | 691 | 295 | 1,344 |
Radiology | 261 | 34,164 | 131 | 68 | 22 | 177 |
Surgery | 462 | 333,774 | 722 | 690 | 381 | 952 |
Others | 575 | 824,199 | 1,433 | 1,078 | 591 | 1,679 |