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 |