Does the Primary Care Experience Influence the Cancer Diagnostic Process?

Table 2

Characteristics of primary care management.

	All patients	Patients with breast cancer	Patients with lung cancer	Patients with colorectal cancer	Difference between cancer sites
	()	()	()	()	value
Having a usual source of PHC (%)	89.3	86.9	93.4	88.1	0.301
Accessibility^1 (mean score on 10)	6.8	6.5	7.1	6.9	0.279
Continuity^1 (mean score on 10)	8.0	7.6	8.6	7.8	0.053
Comprehensiveness^1 (mean score on 10)	7.8	7.7	8.3	7.4	0.115

Scores of experience of care relate to care received at the usual source of PHC in the two years preceding the cancer diagnosis. A score of 0 was attributed to patients who had no usual source of PHC.
Pearson’s Chi-Square test for comparison of %, and Fisher’s test for comparison of mean scores.