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Table 2 User quota of health care services in 2006 according to care levels

From: Are community-living and institutionalized dementia patients cared for differently? Evidence on service utilization and costs of care from German insurance claims data

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%

./.

  1. v=visits; p=prescriptions; d=days.
  2. * p≤0.05; ** p ≤0.001, *** p≤0.0001; ns=not significant.