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Table 2 Patterns of utilization of specialist disciplines in incident and control group over the two-year observation period*

From: Specialist involvement and referral patterns in ambulatory medical care for patients with dementia in Germany: results of a claims data based case-control study

  

Neuropsychiatry pattern percentages

Radiology pattern percentages

Laboratory medicine pattern percentages

Pattern number

Pattern description

incident group

control group

incident group

control group

incident group

control group

1

Contacts over 3 or 4 quarters in quarters 5 to 8

54.9

26.3

2.9

5.0

14.5

16.9

2

Contact in only 1 quarter in quarters 5 to 8

23.1

55.2

79.8

78.0

59.5

61.2

3

Two contacts or more in quarters 1 to 4

35.6

41.6

22.8

23.6

37.0

39.9

4

Two contacts or more in quarters 1 to 4 and in quarters 5 to 8

24.7

9.4

2.0

2.7

10.6

12.0

  1. * Numbers refer to patients with at least one contact with a specific discipline
  2. Quarters 1 - 4 = quarters before incidence/diagnosis quarter; quarter 5 = incidence/diagnosis quarter, quarters 6 - 8 = quarters after incidence/diagnosis quarter