The phrase "any type of physician" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to physicians of various specialties or categories without specifying a particular one.
Example: "For this study, we are looking to gather data from any type of physician, including general practitioners and specialists."
Alternatives: "any kind of doctor" or "any sort of physician."
Based on this information, receiving antidepressant pharmacotherapy for at least two months with at least four visits with any type of physician or at least eight sessions of psychotherapy within 12 months were regarded as minimally adequate treatment.
Age was significantly associated with utilisation of any type of physician (Table 2) and GPs (Table 3), controlled for the other variables in the models (sex, health status, SSS and/or educational attainment) (I III).
A greater proportion of women than men consulted any type of physician or general practitioner both in Norway and in Finland; in Norway, this difference was statistically significant only in the age group 65 69 (Fig 1).
The primary difference between our method and other top scores in the i2b2 challenge is the extensive use of publicly available medical texts to learn the distributional characteristics of individual PHI tokens that could appear in any type of physician note.
Further details on non-responders are provided in Additional file 3. The unadjusted simple regression estimates obtained from bivariate models showed statistically significant positive associations between age, "Bad" health status and utilisation of any type of physician (in- or outpatient) (Table 2) and GPs (Table 3).
Compared to the reference group, asylum-seekers reporting a 'Bad' health status were significantly more likely to visit any type of physician (Table 2), psychotherapists (Table 4) and to be admitted to hospitals (Table 5) after controlling for the other variables in the models (I III).
In some jurisdictions obstetricians, who previously provided only consultant services, are also providing primary maternity care; but at present there is a shortage of any type of physicians in active maternity practice in both urban and rural settings [ 26].
Moreover, general preventive care (i.e. bone densitometry) was more likely to be delivered by a primary care physician than any other type of physician.
In these analyses, the variable "all types of physician" was the outcome measure.
A future study could include a nationwide survey of all types of physician practices, regardless of managed care status, ownership, specialty, or size.
For the logistic regression analysis, the outcome measure was defined as "all types of physician", ie, an overall category for all eight types of health care.
