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Table 4 Characteristics of the contacts involving patients with only one of the ten most common chronic conditions (n=660)

From: Chronic care management in Danish general practice - a cross‒sectional study of workload and multimorbidity

Chronic disease

No

Additional psychosocial problems present n (%)

Time consumption Minutes n (%)

The GP-experienced burden n (%)

Nurse substitution possible n (%)

<16

>15

Very easy-medium

Heavy or very heavy

Hypertension

304

36 (11.9)

267 (9.9)

37 (12.2)

266 (87.8)

37 (12.2)

91 (32.0)

Type2-diabetes

72

8 (11.1)

60 (15.3)

12 (16.7)

55 (77.5)

16 (22.5)

20 (29.0)

Depression

84

27 (32.1)

37 (6.0)

47 (56.0)

52 (61.9)

32 (38.1)

6 (7.6)

Lipid disorder

27

1 (3.7)

23 (14.8)

4 (14.8)

20 (80.0)

5 (20.0)

8 (30.8)

COPD

50

8 (16.0)

36 (6.0)

14 (28.0)

36 (73.5)

13 (26.5)

4 (8.3)

Isch. heart disease

33

3 (9.1)

28 (12.1)

5 (15.2)

31 (93.9)

2 (6.1)

6 (20.0)

Atrial fibrillation

27

3 (11.1)

25 (14.8)

2 (7.4)

23 (88.5)

3 (11.5)

6 (24.0)

Obesity/overweight

19

4 (21.1)

15 (0.0)

4 (21.1)

14 (73.7)

5 (26.3)

3 (16.7)

Asthma

27

2 (7.4)

20 (7.4)

7 (25.9)

26 (96.3)

1 (3.7)

4 (15.4)

Dementia

17

0 (0.0)

10 (11.8)

7 (41.2)

11 (64.7)

6 (35.3)

2 (11.8)

P-values

 

P<0.001

 

P<0.001

 

P<0.001

P<0.001