Table 3.
Health condition and health care consumption at six-week follow-up
| Ultrasound n = 360 n(%) |
Not ultrasound n = 359 n(%) |
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Further examinations (performed or planned)* | 111(31.1) | 146(41.4) | 0.004 |
| Planned | 40(11.2) | 60(17.0) | |
| Completed | 71(19.9) | 86(24.4) | |
| Not planned | 246(68.9) | 206(58.6) | |
| Computer tomography | 12(3.4) | 12(3.4) | 0.989 |
| Ultrasound | 13(3.7) | 29(8.2) | 0.010 |
| Laboratory tests | 3(0.8) | 1(0.3) | 0.319 |
| Gastroscopy | 16(4.5) | 15(4.2) | 0.867 |
| Colonoscopy | 20(5.6) | 38(10.7) | 0.013 |
| Urography | 19(5.3) | 23(6.5) | 0.512 |
| Other examinations | 46(12.9) | 58(16.4) | 0.192 |
| Doctor consultation | 88(24.7) | 77(21.6) | 0.329 |
| Health condition** | 0.984 | ||
| totally well | 218(60.7) | 215 (59.9) | |
| partly well | 78(21.7) | 77(21.4) | |
| not well can not tell | 59(16.4) 4(1.1) |
63(17.5) 4(1.1) |
|
| can not tell | 4(1.1) | 4(1.1) | |
*Missing data in 3 patients in US group and 7 patients in not US group
** Missing data in 1 patient in US group