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Table 4 Application rates of general practitioners (GPs) and general internal medicine (GIM) physicians for procedures performed to a greater extent by GIM physicians (in %)

From: Procedures performed by general practitioners and general internal medicine physicians - a comparison based on routine data from Northern Germany

Code

Description

2013

2015

GP (n = 1228)

GIM (n = 447)

p-value*

GP (n = 1227)

GIM (n = 484)

p-value*

03330

Spirometry

80.5

82.3

n.s.

80.1

83.7

n.s.

03324

24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring

72.2

82.8

< 0.001

74.2

82.9

0.011

32040

Faecal occult blood test in 3 samples

68.5

70.0

n.s.

66.0

66.9

n.s.

33042

Abdominal sonography B-scan

52.9

91.1

< 0.001

51.6

89.3

< 0.001

03321

Cardiac stress test

45.5

79.6

< 0.001

52.6

82.4

< 0.001

32031

Microscopic urinalysis for morphological components

37.8

41.6

n.s.

34.5

34.9

n.s.

33012

Thyroid sonography B-scan

21.4

73.6

< 0.001

21.5

75.4

< 0.001

02313

Compression therapy for chronic venous insufficiency, post-thrombotic syndrome, superficial and deep vein thrombosis and/or lymphoedema

15.8

16.1

n.s.

20.7

19.8

n.s.

03331

Proctoscopy

6.4

7.4

n.s.

5.2

7.2

n.s.

02311

Diabetic foot care

6.2

10.1

n.s.

5.5

9.9

n.s.

33061

CW Doppler sonography of limb blood vessels, at least 3 transducer locations per limb

1.6

8.5

< 0.001

1.5

7.2

< 0.001

33060

Sonographic examination of extracranial cerebral vessels, the periorbital arteries, subclavian arteries and vertebral arteries by CW-Doppler

1.1

3.6

0.036

1.1

3.3

n.s.

01220

Resuscitation

0.7

1.1

n.s.

1.1

0.0

n.s.

33076

Limb vein B-scan sonography at least 8 transducer locations

0.3

8.7

< 0.001

0.6

9.3

< 0.001

  1. *Bonferroni correction
  2. only procedures with percentages larger than 1.0% for at least one specialty are shown
  3. bold percentages indicate a significant difference between 2013 and 2015 (at the 5% level)
  4. n.s. not significant (at the 5% level)