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Table 2 Objective health and physician-rated health distributions

From: Discordance between physician-rated health and an objective health measure among institutionalized older people

	Physician-rated health
Objective health	Very good/good	Fair	Poor/very poor	Total
	No. (%) ^a	No. (%) ^a	No. (%) ^a	No. (%) ^a
Good	34 (9.2)	1 (0.2)	0 (0.0)	35 (4.3)
Intermediate	130 (51.8) ^b	44 (20.5)	6 (7.5)	180 (32.9)
Poor	101 (39.0) ^c	174 (79.3) ^b	69 (92.5)	344 (62.8)
Total	265 (100)	219 (100)	75 (100)	559 (100)

^a Unweighted counts and weighted percentages
^b Moderate overrating
^c Clear overrating

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