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Visits to Generalist and Specialist Physicians for Adults with Hypertension
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Visits to Generalist and Specialist Physicians for Children with Diabetes
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Age Group No Comorbidity Low Comorbidity Medium Comorbidity High Comorbidity All Adults 20.6 54.3 15.1 10.0 100.0 Children 17.0 65.7 13.9 3.4 100.0 Total 19.6 57.6 14.8 8.0 100.0 - Table 2.
Distribution of Comorbidity Groups within Selected Disease Categories with Health Services Resource Ratios
Percent Distribution of Comorbidity Groups Health Services Resources Ratio by Comorbidity Group Condition Prevalence per 1000 Low Medium High Low Medium High All Groups Unless otherwise indicated, treated prevalence is for adult conditions. Comorbidity groups are groupings of the Adjusted Clinical Groups. The health services resources ratio compares the expected healthcare resource use for an average patient in the group and the average patient with comorbidity. The ratio for the entire population of adult and pediatric users is 1.0. Hypertension 64.4 47.4 23.1 29.6 0.55 1.78 5.56 2.32 Lipoid metabolism disorder 42.3 45.8 24.1 30.2 0.57 1.76 5.14 2.23 Asthma, pediatric 31.8 41.7 34.5 23.8 0.41 0.93 3.43 1.31 Diabetes, adult 23.0 40.4 26.4 33.2 0.62 2.22 7.13 3.21 Asthma, adult 18.8 32.9 30.0 37.0 0.61 1.44 4.92 2.46 Ischemic heart disease 13.0 23.6 26.9 49.5 0.69 3.08 9.15 5.52 Thrombophlebitis 2.9 21.8 26.4 51.7 0.66 1.88 7.95 4.75 Congestive heart failure 2.0 14.9 21.5 63.6 0.68 3.12 12.96 9.01 Multiple sclerosis 2.0 34.6 28.2 37.2 0.67 2.70 7.48 3.78 Diabetes, pediatric 1.9 42.5 35.0 22.5 0.46 1.64 6.54 2.24 Chronic liver disease 1.3 18.1 21.8 60.1 0.68 3.03 10.44 7.06 - Table 3.
Mean Numbers of Visits with Generalist and Specialist Physicians for Index Condition and for Other Conditions by Comorbidity Group
Number of Visits for Index Condition (Primary Care / Specialist) Number of Visits for Other Conditions (Primary Care / Specialist) Comorbidity Group Comorbidity Group Condition Low Medium High Low Medium High Unless otherwise indicated, prevalences are for adults. Comorbidity Groups are an aggregation of the Adjusted Clinical Groups (ACGs). a. Fewer than 30 cases in category. * P < .05 for comparing mean number of primary care physician visits with mean number of specialist visits. ** P < .01 *** P < .001 Hypertension 1.38/0.12*** 1.38/0.17*** 1.25/0.20*** 1.07/0.61*** 2.51/2.11*** 4.79/4.31*** Lipoid metabolism disorders 1.03/0.15*** 1.01/0.19*** 0.86/0.18*** 1.19/0.59*** 2.62/1.83*** 4.78/3.87*** Asthma, children 1.05/0.26*** 1.16/0.28*** 1.05/0.54*** 2.29/0.57*** 4.67/1.35*** 8.19/3.25*** Diabetes, adults 1.50/0.66*** 1.62/0.90*** 1.84/1.32*** 1.14/0.64*** 2.31/1.70*** 4.52/4.43 Asthma, adults 0.91/0.59*** 0.83/0.64* 0.94/1.03 1.56/0.80*** 3.73/2.09*** 6.42/4.78*** Ischemic heart disease 0.96/0.40*** 0.87/0.59*** 0.96/0.70*** 1.30/0.66*** 2.54/1.62*** 5.00/3.92*** Thrombophlebitis 1.01/0.17*** 1.11/0.21*** 1.26/0.28*** 1.25/0.69** 2.67/1.91* 5.24/5.24 Congestive heart failure 0.93/0.49 1.17/0.49* 0.96/0.44** 2.44/1.29* 3.74/1.72*** 6.75/6.90 Multiple sclerosis 0.89/1.51** 0.54/1.73*** 0.99/2.19*** 1.00/0.59** 2.49/2.27 4.27/4.29 Diabetes, children 0.80/1.92** 0.74/2.57*** 1.85/2.63a 1.71/0.45*** 3.07/0.81*** 4.26/1.33***a Chronic liver disease 0.71/0.83 0.33/0.86 0.68/0.51 1.29/0.97 2.83/2.24 5.51/5.08
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