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Table 2 Mean number of contacts/year with physicians according to degree of morbidity, age group and sex among the elderly aged 65 years and more

From: Patterns of ambulatory medical care utilization in elderly patients with special reference to chronic diseases and multimorbidity - Results from a claims data based observational study in Germany

 

non-multimorbid sample

multimorbid sample

 

mean all

SD all

male mean

female mean

p-value

mean all

SD all

male mean

female mean

p-value

65-69 years

14.6

14.4

13.8

15.9

< 0.001

34.1

23.9

33.4

35.0

< 0.001

70-74 years

16.2

15.7

15.9

16.8

0.004

35.9

24.1

35.9

35.9

0.835

75-79 years

18.2

17.5

18.1

18.3

0.615

38.5

25.0

38.9

37.9

0.009

≥ 80 years

20.6

19.4

20.1

21.0

0.120

39.3

25.4

40.2

38.6

< 0.001

All

15.9

15.7

15.2

17.1

< 0.001

36.3

24.5

36.0

36.6

< 0.001

  1. SD = standard deviation
  2. p = statistical significance of difference between women and men.
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