Table 1.

Characteristics of patients at Ryd and Ödeshög PHC centres

	Ödeshög		Ryd
	2001	2002	2001	2002
Number of patients
- enrolled	5 600	5 600	9 000	9 000
- contacting the PHC	4 075	4 122	5 163	6 539
- diagnosed by a GP	3 073	3 144	4 478	5 358
Number of diagnoses/patient	2.07	2.04	2.28	2.17
Mean age	45.8	46.9	36.4	35.9
Proportion of females	54.2	53.3	52.1	57.9
Mean costs per patient (SEK)*	3 331	3 293	2 356	2 265
Mean ACG weight	1.0 **		1.07	1.19

* Swedish Crowns

** 1.0 since the individual patients costs for the two years together were the base for the weights