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Table 3 Odds Ratios (ORs) for medical care utilisation from multivariate binary regression analyses

From: Unlimited access to health care - impact of psychosomatic co-morbidity on utilisation in German general practices

 

Practice visits > 11 per year

Referrals > 3 per year

Periods of disability > 10 dy

 

OR (95%CI)

p

OR (95%CI)

p

OR (95%CI)

p

At least one permanent mental diagnosis

20.0 (7.5-53.9)

< 0.001

3.6 (1.4-9.8)

0.011

5.0 (1.6-15.8)

0.007

> 3 permanent somatic diagnoses

14.4 (5.9-35.4)

< 0.001

4.9 (2.0-11.9)

< 0.001

2.5 (0.7-8.1)

0.143

Female

1.2 (0.9-1.7)

0.185

1.4 (1.1-1.9)

0.016

0.7 (0.5-1.0)

0.043

Age

1.0 (1.0-1.0)

< 0.001

1.0 (1.0-1.0)

< 0.001

1.0 (1.0-1.0)

< 0.001

Education ≤ 10 years

1.6 (1.2-2.2)

0.006

0.8 (0.6-1.1)

0.206

2.3 (1.5-3.7)

< 0.001

  1. > 11 practice visits, > 3 referrals, > 10 days of disability is defined as high utilisation (cut-off by the median)
  2. Multivariate ORs are adjusted for the interaction term of mental and somatic diagnoses