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Table 3 Number of patients and doctors in MSAs for the three categories

From: Effect and significance of incorporating access in estimating the number of required physicians: focus on differences in population density in the target area

Type of MSA

Number of MSAs (type of MSA/total)

Total population (type of MSA/total)

Number of

Estimation by access simulation: EAS

Estimation by number of patients: ENP

Number of physicians for outpatients (type of MSA/total)

Number of physicians for outpatients (type of MSA/total)

Outpatients (type of MSA/total)

Actual physician (type of MSA/total)

High population density

114 (33.1%)

85,675,469 (66.8%)

1,004,552 (65.2%)

58,982 (66.7%)

28,959 (62.4%)

25,178 (65.1%)

Middle population density

115 (33.4%)

29,466,441 (23.0%)

369,793 (24.0%)

20,824 (23.6%)

11,936 (25.7%)

9305 (24.1%)

Low population density

115 (33.4%)

13,218,347 (10.3%)

165,658 (10.8%)

8609 (9.7%)

5483 (11.8%)

4202 (10.9%)

Total

344 (100.0%)

128,360,257 (100.0%)

1,540,003 (100.0%)

88,415 (100.0%)

46,378 (100.0%)

38,685 (100.0%)