Service utilization and expenditures (€) per dementia patient across all care levels adjusted for age, gender, comorbidity, mortality and care level | ||||||||||
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 | Institution (n=2,934) | Community (all) (n=5,584) | Difference | Community (care level) (n=2,159) | Difference | |||||
 | Volume | Costs | Volume | Costs | Costs | p-value | Volume | Costs | Costs | p-value |
Health insurance* |  | 5,693 |  | 5,466 | 227 | s |  | 6,424 | −731 | s |
without home health care* | Â | 5,678 | Â | 4,759 | 919 | ns | Â | 5,533 | 145 | ns |
 General practitioner (v) | 54.3 | 761 | 33.2 | 626 | 135 | s | 37.6 | 705 | 56 | s |
 Medical specialist (v) | 13.0 | 327 | 8.8 | 310 | 17 | s | 7.2 | 264 | 63 | s |
 Medication (p) | 38.8 | 1,636 | 33.0 | 1,270 | 366 | ns | 41.1 | 1,569 | 67 | ns |
 of which anti-dementia drugs (p) | 0.3 | 49 | 0.7 | 129 | −80 | s | 0.6 | 131 | −82 | s |
 Hospital treatment (d) | 6.2 | 1,904 | 7.2 | 1,990 | −86 | ns | 7.5 | 2,253 | −349 | s1 |
 Non-physician services (p) | 1.7 | 295 | 1.1 | 189 | 106 | s2 | 1.7 | 281 | 14 | s2 |
 Medical aids (p) | 5.3 | 742 | 1.5 | 216 | 526 | s | 2.6 | 303 | 439 | s |
 Rehabilitation (d) | 0.1 | 16 | 1.1 | 140 | −124 | s2 | 0.7 | 128 | −112 | s2 |
 Home health care (p) | not provided |  | 2.8 | 694 | −694 | ./. | 4.1 | 893 | −893 | ./. |
Long-term care insurance | Â | 15,340 | Â | 4,159 | 11,181 | s | Â | 6,810 | 8,530 | s |
 of which transfers to informal care |  |  |  | 2,082 | −2,082 | ./. |  | 3,414 |  | ./. |
Social security system* | Â | 21,388 | Â | 9,765 | 11,623 | s | Â | 13,477 | 7,911 | s |