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Table 1 Characteristics of patients with numbers of practice visits, referrals and work leaf within 12 months in relation to documented continuous diagnoses (n = 6 are missing; p-values are related to Chi-square test (sex, education), analysis of variance (age) or Kruskal-Wallis test (utilisation measures).

From: Unlimited access to health care - impact of psychosomatic co-morbidity on utilisation in German general practices

Permanent diagnoses

 

Female

Age

Education ≤ 10 years

Practice visits within 12 months

Referrals within 12 months

Periods of disability within 12 months

 

N (%)

n (%)

mean (sd)

n (%)

mean (sd)

mean (sd)

mean (sd)

None

159 (15.8)

83 (52.2)

33.5 (12.3)

78 (49.1)

4.4 (4.1)

1.1 (2.0)

4.4 (7.8)

≥ 1 mental

35 (3.5)

18 (51.4)

38.6 (9.8)

26 (74.3)

23.9 (27.4)

2.5 (2.4)

8.1 (11.4)

≥ 1 somatic

562 (55.9)

321 (57.1)

52.9 (17.5)

372 (66.2)

13.6 (10.6)

3.9 (4.0)

6.4 (23.1)

≥ 1 mental and ≥ 1 somatic

249 (24.8)

166 (66.7)

52.7 (15.7)

183 (73.5)

24.6 (22.8)

5.3 (5.0)

11.6 (29.0)

All patients

1005 (100)

588 (58.5)

49.3 (17.7)

659 (65.6)

15.2 (16.3)

3.8 (4.2)

7.5 (23.12)

p-value

 

0.004

p < 0.001

p < 0.001

p < 0.001

p < 0.001

p < 0.001