Table 2.
Patients characteristics, number of consultations and time from general practitioner (GP)/physiotherapist (PT) to GP/PT/specialist health care (SHC) for all patients with musculoskeletal diagnoses (MSD) diagnosed in 2015 and for the three selected diagnosis groups, by first consultation in primary health care.
| All MSD diagnosis |
Spine pain |
Osteoarthritis |
Fibromyalgia |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 304 189 |
42 078 |
6 263 |
4 467 |
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| Number of patients | GP first | PT first | GP first | PT first | GP first | PT first | GP first | PT first |
| Number of patients | 285 277 | 18 913 | 37 722 | 4 356 | 5 460 | 772 | 4 142 | 325 |
| Age, mean (SD) | 49.3 (17.4) | 50.1 (17.7) | 45.7 (16.4) | 46.0 (16.5) | 67.4 (12.1) | 67.7 (11.7) | 47.0 (14.8) | 47.7 (15.7) |
| Women, n (%) | 151 588 (53.1) | 11 105 (58.7) | 19 329 (51.2) | 2 688 (61.7) | 3 293 (60.3) | 474 (61.4) | 3 219 (77.7) | 267 (82.2) |
| Total cons*, median (IQR)** | 5 (3–10) | 13 (7–27) | 5 (3–11) | 12 (6–24) | 7 (3–25) | 35 (18–63) | 5 (3–11) | 20 (11–38) |
| GP cons, median (IQR) | 3 (2–5) | 1 (0–3) | 3 (2–6) | 1(0–2) | 3 (2–5) | 2 (0–3) | 3 (2–6) | 0 (0–2) |
| PT cons, median (IQR) | 0 (0–2) | 11 (5–24) | 0 (0–3) | 10 (5–22) | 0 (0–17) | 32 (15–59) | 0 (0–1) | 18 (10–36) |
| SHC cons, median (IQR) | 0 (0–1) | 0 (0–0) | 0 (0–1) | 0 (0–0) | 1 (0–3) | 0 (0–1) | 0 (0–1) | 0 (0–0) |
| Number of days from first GP to first PT, median (IQR) | 174 (56–405) | 135 (40–361) | 150 (53–330) | 127 (34–316) | ||||
| Number of days from first GP to first SHC, median (IQR) | 204 (98–417) | 207 (104–408) | 146 (71–349) | 245 (110–448) | ||||
| Number of days from first PT to first GP, median (IQR) | 215 (75–424) | 224 (87–427) | 167 (71–356) | 185 (51–391) | ||||
| Number of days from first PT to first SHC, median (IQR) | 279 (130–476) | 307 (161–501) | 238 (123–435) | 338 (151–533) | ||||
*
Consultations.
**
IQR: interquartile range, 25–75 percentile.