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Table 2 Baseline characteristics, top 10 ICPC groups

From: The impact of substituting general practitioners with nurse practitioners on resource use, production and health-care costs during out-of-hours: a quasi-experimental study

 

Control arm

Experimental arm

GP Experimental arm

NP Experimental arm

Complaints (%)a

Skin

21.7

22.7

20.7

31.2

Musculoskeletal

20.5

20.1

19.6

22.2

Respiratory

15.2

14.2

13.7

16.3

Digestive

10.5

9.9

11.4

3.0

Eye

6.0

6.1

6.5

4.4

General and unspecified

5.9

6.5

6.6

6.0

Ear

5.7

5.8

5.6

6.8

Urological

5.5

5.7

5.7

5.6

Cardiovascular

2.5

2.5

2.9

0.7

Neurological

2.3

2.3

2.8

0.3

Other

4.2

4.2

4.5

3.5

  1. Tested using a Chi2 test
  2. asignificant difference between the GP and NP in the experimental arm