Allied Health Professional Support in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Survey from the Canadian Children Inflammatory Bowel Disease Network—A Joint Partnership of CIHR and the CH.I.L.D. Foundation

Table 3

Number of IBD patients per physicians and allied healthcare professionals in individual tertiary centres.

Center number	Number of patients per a physician	Number of patients per a nurse	Number of patients per a dietitian	Number of patients per a social worker	Number of patients per a psychologist
1	107	320	3200	16000	3200
2	50	500	625	1667	1667
3	31	667	1000	2000	2000
	120	150	1200	No social worker	No psychologist
5	111	250	250	250	No psychologist
	113	900	4500	No social worker	No response
7	37	184	275	2750	916
	182	334	286	2000	1000
9	128	287	319	718	No psychologist
	300	231	600	750	No psychologist
	530	321	1800	3000	1800
12	537	235	470	3760	626
value	0.004	0.000	0.010	0.04	0.003

with dedicated IBD physicians.