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Table 5 Association between contacts involving the ten most common chronic conditions and the GP experience of the contacts as heavy or very heavy adjusted for additional psychosocial problems and time consumption (n=660)

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

  

GP experienced workload as heavy/very heavy

P-values

Prevalence (N)

Prevalence difference (95% CI)

Prevalence ratio (95% CI)

Adj. prevalence ratio (95% CI)

Chronic disease

Hypertension

0.12 (37)

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1

1

 

Type2-diabetes

0.22 (16)

0.10 (-0.001-0.21)

1.85 (1.09-3-12)

1.62 (0.94-2.8)

0.085

Depression

0.38 (32)

0.26 (0.15-0.37)

3.12 (2.1-4.69)

1.41 (0.93-2.13)

0.107

Lipid disorder

0.20 (5)

0.08 (-0.08-0.24)

1.64 (0.71-3.79)

1.81 (0.92-3.54)

0.085

COPD

0.26 (13)

0.14 (0.01-0.27)

2.17 (1.25-3.79)

1.59 (0.94-2.68)

0.084

Isch. heart disease

0.06 (2)

-0.06 (-0.15-0.23)

0.5 (0.13-1.97)

0.50 (0.13-1.90)

0.308

Atrial fibrillation

0.115 (3)

0.005 (-0.13-0.12)

0.95 (0.31-2.86)

1.10 (0.39-3.09)

0.852

Obesity/overweight

0.26 (5)

0.14 (-0.06-0.34)

2.15 (0.96-4.85)

1.64 (0.73-3.67)

0.232

Asthma

0.04 (1)

-0.08 (-0.17-0.005)

0.30 (0.04-2.13)

0.25 (0.04-1.64)

0.149

Dementia

0.35 (6)

0.23 (0.001-0.46)

2.92 (1.42-5.88)

2.00 (0.98-3.94)

0.056

Additional psychosocial problems

No

0.41 (82)

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1

1

 
 

Yes

0.14 (38)

0.27 (0.16-0.37)

2.8 (2.07-3.88)

1.72 (1.23-2.40)

0.002

Time consumption

< 16 minutes

0.10 (51)

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1

1

 
 

>15 minutes

0.50 (69)

0.40 (0.32-0.49)

5.11 (3.75-7.00)

4.06 (2.80-5.89)

<0.001

  1. 1Adjusted for additional psychosocial problems and time consumption.