Table 3.
Use of healthcare services following diagnosis of unruptured intracranial aneurysm.
| Cases | Control1 |
Control2 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P-valuea | P-valuea | ||||
| Hospital admissions per person-years, mean (95% CI) | 0.26 (0.19, 0.36) | 0.22 (0.16, 0.30) | 0.44 | 0.33 (0.24, 0.44) | 0.33 |
| Outpatient appointments per person-years, mean (95% CI) | 3.75 (3.06, 4.61) | 3.30 (2.60, 4.19) | 0.43 | 3.30 (2.70, 4.03) | 0.38 |
| GP appointments per person-year, mean (95% CI) | 10.3 (8.94, 11.8) | 9.60 (8.52, 10.8) | 0.46 | 10.1 (8.85, 11.5) | 0.85 |
| Physiotherapy or chiropractic appointments per person-year, mean (95% CI) | 3.06 (1.81, 5.18) | 2.73 (1.72, 4.36) | 0.75 | 3.23 (2.14, 4.86) | 0.88 |
| Radiology exams per person-year, mean (95% CI) | 1.47 (1.25, 1.74) | 0.91 (0.75, 1.09) | 0.000 | 0.95 (0.79, 1.14) | 0.001 |
| Laboratory services, bills per person-year, mean (95% CI) | 2.73 (2.25, 3.31) | 2.60 (2.25, 3.01) | 0.70 | 2.48 (2.12, 2.91) | 0.46 |
| Deductibles per person-year, mean NOK (95% CI) | 2062 (1852, 2296) | 1698 (1544, 1867) | 0.008 | 1747 (1591, 1919) | 0.023 |
CI, confidence interval; NOK, Norwegian kroner.
a
Separate Poisson regression analyses of differences between cases and the two control groups.