Table 2: The total of 3387 visits for the 382 studied children diagnosed with IBD between the years1988-2008
| 1988-1994 | 1995-2000 | 2001-2008 | P Value ( < 0.05) | |
| Median number of overall visits/patient | 16.3 ± 6.6 | 9.5 ± 1.1 | 3.7 ± 1.9 | 0.0001 |
| Median number of visits/patient/year | 4.3 ± 2.6 | 3.1 ± 1.9 | 2.8 ± 1.5 | 0.04 |
| Median number of follow-up years /patient | 6.2 ± 2.4 | 3.3 ± 2.0 | 1.4 ± 0.6 | 0.0001 |