Does the Primary Care Experience Influence the Cancer Diagnostic Process?

Table 5

Factors associated with patients’ use of their usual source of PHC as point of entry into the cancer investigation process. Patients with a usual source of PHC ().

	OR	CI 90%	value
Cancer site (ref.: breast)
Lung	1.07	0.59–1.94	0.844
Colorectal	0.77	0.41–1.45	0.500
Symptom urgency (ref.: yes)
No	7.02	3.93–12.53	<0.001
Sex (ref.: male)
Female	0.74	0.42–1.29	0.370
Age^1	0.98	0.96–1.00	0.157
Education level (ref.: primary or secondary)
College or university	1.08	0.68–1.72	0.779
Accessibility at the usual source of PHC^1	1.03	0.90–1.17	0.722
Continuity at the usual source of PHC^1	0.92	0.74–1.15	0.539
Comprehensiveness at the usual source of PHC^1	1.25	1.06–1.46	0.023

In this model, age and experience of care indices are continuous variables.
Note: results were similar for models including level of morbidity or type of PHC clinic as covariates and for models excluding symptom urgency.