Research Article

Monthly Incidence Rates of Abusive Encounters for Canadian Family Physicians by Patients and Their Families

Table 1

Demographic information of 720 participants.

VariableNumber(%)

Gender
 Male320(44.4%)
 Female400(55.6%)
Heritage identification
 Caucasian (79.5%)
 Minority145(20.5%)
Sexual orientation
 Heterosexual (97.0%)
 Homosexual17(2.4%)
 Bisexual4(0.6%)
Main patient care setting
 Private office (63.5%)
 Emergency department81(11.4%)
 Community clinic63(8.8%)
 Academic43(6.0%)
 Other73(10.2%)
Location of main practice setting
 Inner city (11.8%)
 Urban/Suburban 415(58.1%)
 Small town 119(16.7%)
 Rural/Remote 94(13.1%)

Some categories have missing data.