Table 2 |
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| User quota of health care services in 2006 according to care levels | ||||||||||
| Setting-specific utilization quota of health care services according to care level adjusted for age, gender, comorbidity, mortality and single interactions | ||||||||||
| No care level | Care level 1 | Care level 2 | Care level 3 | |||||||
| Community | Institution | Community | p-value | Institution | Community | p-value | Institution | Community | p-value | |
| (n=3,325) | (n=705) | (n=1,059) | (n=1,201) | (n=729) | (n=1,028) | (n=371) | ||||
| General practitioner (v) | 99.1% | 100.0% | 99.5% | ns | 100.0% | 100.0% | ns | 100.0% | 99.5% | ns |
| Medical specialist (v) | 85.5% | 86.6% | 79.3% | ** | 87.1% | 72.9% | *** | 77.8% | 61.6% | *** |
| Medication (p) | 99.1% | 100.0% | 99.9% | ns | 100.0% | 100.0% | ns | 99.7% | 100.0% | ns |
| of which anti-dementia drugs (p) | 16.5% | 10.2% | 21.2% | *** | 9.5% | 15.4% | *** | 5.0% | 8.5% | * |
| Hospital treatment (d) | 35.1% | 40.0% | 43.2% | ns | 46.3% | 45.5% | ns | 39.7% | 41.3% | ns |
| Non-physician services (p) | 17.8% | 25.9% | 22.1% | * | 38.3% | 29.7% | ** | 31.6% | 33.3% | ns |
| Medical aids (p) | 42.0% | 84.8% | 54.0% | *** | 94.6% | 59.8% | *** | 96.9% | 70.9% | *** |
| Rehabilitation | 5.4% | 1.4% | 7.2% | *** | 0.9% | 3.6% | ** | estimation not possible | ./. | |
| Home health care | 16.1% | not provided | 35.1% | ./. | not provided | 40.9% | ./. | not provided | 44.8% | ./. |
v=visits; p=prescriptions; d=days.
* p≤0.05; ** p ≤0.001, *** p≤0.0001; ns=not significant.
Schwarzkopf et al. BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:2 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-13-2
