Capital Region Physician Access
Survey
Survey of Wait times to access Physician Services
conducted for the Capital Region Medical Staff Association
September 1999
Response Rates
1423 physicians in the Capital Health Region were surveyed by fax, with a reminder sent to
all who had not responded after 21 days. 763 active family physicians were identified and
received surveys, of whom 295 responded. 266 Specialists including Medicine, Obstetrics
and Gynecology, Pediatrics and Psychiatry responded from a known 562 medical specialists
and sub-specialists. Lastly, 98 surveys from 172 known Surgical Specialists/Subspecialists
were received.
| |
Total Number (1999) |
Responses
(1999) |
Response Rate (1999) |
Response Rate (1998)* |
Response Rate (1997)* |
| Family Physicians |
763 |
295 |
38.7% |
19.8% |
9.4% |
| Medical Specialists |
562 |
266 |
47.3% |
26.2% |
15.4% |
| Surgical Specialists |
172 |
98 |
57.0% |
32.4% |
30.5% |
* response rates from 1998 and 1997 were previously
calculated as percent of the physicians contacted, and have been recalculated as
percentages of the whole physician population.
"Are you accepting new
patients?"
(From Family Physicians Survey)
293 Physicians responded out of 763 physicians, 38.4%
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