Do primary care physicians coordinate ambulatory care for chronic disease patients in Canada?

BMC Primary Care

Table 4 Ambulatory care visit and referral patterns of Manitoba chronic disease patients over 3 years by residence area: percent of total visits by patients with an assigned PCP*

Visit category	Winnipeg	Non-Winnipeg
Visits to Assigned PCP	52.55	58.29
Visits to Another PCP	17.31	23.10
Visits to a Specialist by Referral	13.34	7.99
By Assigned PCP	6.15	1.87
By Another PCP	4.81	4.19
By Specialist	2.38	1.93
Visits to a Specialist without Referral	13.40	7.82
Assigned Physician is a PCP	3.51	1.48
Assigned Physician is the Specialist visited	8.33	4.97
Assigned Physician is another Specialist	1.56	1.37

*PCP: primary care physician. Bold text indicates the percent of total visits; regular text is used to describe the referral patterns or assigned physician in each category.

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