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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 16.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA. 2011 Mar 16;305(11):1113–1118. doi: 10.1001/jama.2011.307

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Population-Based Mortality and Case Fatality Across Regions With Varying Diagnosis Frequency

Error bars indicate 95% confidence intervals. Relative rates of death in regions with very high vs very low diagnosis frequency: relative rate, 1.07 (95% CI, 1.06–1.08 [P=.31 for trend]) for entire population; 0.97 (95% CI, 0.94–1.00 [P=.46 for trend]) for no chronic conditions; 0.74 (95% CI, 0.72–0.76 [P=.006 for trend]) for 1 chronic condition; 0.76 (95% CI, 0.74–0.78 [P=.007 for trend]) for 2 chronic conditions; 0.81 (95% CI, 0.79–0.84 [P=.01 for trend]) for 3 chronic conditions. Entire population, N=5 153 877; no chronic conditions, n=2 611 646; 1 chronic condition, n=1 318 809; 2 chronic conditions, n=665 093; 3 chronic conditions, n=331 999; not shown are 226 300 persons with 4 or more conditions.

aQuintiles indicate mean number of chronic conditions per beneficiary. Values in parentheses indicate range for each quintile.