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Table 3 Mean (95% confidence interval) number of times 65-74 year olds and ≥ 100 year olds accessed each medical and allied health service

From: Use of health services and medicines amongst Australian war veterans: a comparison of young elderly, near centenarians and centenarians

Service type

Veterans aged

65-74 years

Centenarians

(≥ 100 years)

Rate ratio

(95% CI)*

(Centenarians compared to 65-74 years)

GP visit

10.80 (10.69,10.92)

15.26 (13.54,17.19)

1.41 (1.25, 1.59) p < 0.0001

Specialist visit

6.25 (6.14, 6.37)

7.48 (5.39,10.37)

1.20 ( 0.86, 1.66) p = 0.2860

Health care plan

1.01 (1.00, 1.01)

1.00 (0.97, 1.03)

0.99 (0.97, 1.03) p = 0.7376

GP plan

1.85 (1.81, 1.88)

1.50 (1.04, 2.16)

0.81 (0.56, 1.17) p = 0.2619

Case conference

1.34 (1.27, 1.43)

1.25 (0.83, 1.89)

0.93 (0.61, 1.41) p = 0.7326

Pathology

15.78 (15.50,16.06)

11.68 (8.58,15.89)

0.74 (0.54, 1.01) p = 0.0559

Diagnostic imaging

7.68 (7.53, 7.83)

6.75 (4.75, 9.59)

0.88 (0.62, 1.25) p = 0.4735

Occupational therapy

2.51 (2.42, 2.61)

2.19 (1.45, 3.30)

0.87 (0.58, 1.31) p = 0.5073

Dietician

3.97 (3.69, 4.26)

1.00 (0.10,10.40)

0.25 (0.02, 2.63) p = 0.2492

Dental

1.53 (1.52, 1.55)

1.23 (0.93, 1.63)

0.80 (0.61, 1.06) p = 0.1249

Physiotherapy

14.86 (14.43,15.29)

24.93 (16.33,38.06)

1.68 (1.10, 2.56) p = 0.0167

Podiatry

5.82 (5.76, 5.89)

5.71 (5.01, 6.51)

0.98 (0.86, 1.12) p = 0.7729

Hospital admission

2.26 (2.20, 2.32)

1.52 (0.84, 2.75)

0.67 (0.37, 1.22) p = 0.1923

Number of prescriptions

50.70 (50.21,51.20)

47.36 (41.35,54.25)

0.93 (0.82, 1.07) p = 0.3261

Number of unique medicines

11.53 (11.43,11.64)

11.06 (9.77,12.51)

0.96 (0.85, 1.09) p = 0.5041

  1. *Calculated using Poisson regression