Patient, facility and state characteristics
| n (%) | |
| Patientcharacteristics (N=25 745) | |
| Sex | |
| Male | 7533 (29.3) |
| Female | 18 212 (70.7) |
| Age | |
| Median, range (IQR) | 49, 18–99 (34–63) |
| Level of education | |
| Less than primary school | 4006 (15.6) |
| Less than high school | 13 914 (54.0) |
| High school or more | 7825 (30.4) |
| Visit type | |
| Curative | 23 144 (89.9) |
| Preventive | 2024 (7.9) |
| Dental | 577 (2.2) |
| Reason for visit (ICD-10 code) | |
| Diseases of the circulatory system | 5132 (19.9) |
| Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases | 4898 (19.0) |
| Other | 3085 (12.0) |
| Diseases of the respiratory system | 2386 (9.3) |
| Factors influencing health status and contact with health services | 1805 (7.0) |
| Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium | 1781 (6.9) |
| Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue | 1710 (6.6) |
| Diseases of the digestive system | 1691 (6.6) |
| Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified | 1664 (6.5) |
| Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes | 1593 (6.2) |
| Facility characteristics (N=319) | |
| No. of consultation rooms | |
| Mean (range), SD | 20.4 (1–57), 13.0 |
| Diabetes programme | |
| No diabetes programme | 258 (80.9) |
| Has diabetes programme | 61 (19.1) |
| Nutritionist | |
| No nutritionist | 194 (60.8) |
| At least one nutritionist | 125 (39.2) |
| Nurses room | |
| No nurse room | 300 (94.0) |
| At least one nurse room | 19 (6.0) |
| Patient population size | |
| Median (range), SD | 83 691 (2356–468 618), 86 231.0 |
| State characteristics (N=32) | |
| Percent poverty in state | |
| Mean (range), SD | 41.1 (20.4–76.2), 12.9 |