Table.

Mean rates of health service (primary care) use in year before and year after intervention (95% confidence interval for estimated effect of booklet adjusted for baseline)

	Book			Control		Difference (95% CI)
	Before	After		Before	After
Community health index
Total contacts	4.19	4.20		3.95	3.91	0.14 (−0.18 to 0.45)
Contacts for minor illness	1.13	1.09		1.06	1.07	0.03 (−0.17 to 0.10)
Out of hours contacts	0.13	0.11		0.11	0.13	−0.02 (−0.06 to 0.01)
Out of hours
Total contacts	8.53	6.57		9.02	6.65	0.22 (−0.31 to 0.75)
Contacts for minor illness	2.24	1.74		2.43	1.84	0.02 (−0.25 to 0.29)
Out of hours contacts	0.13	0.11		0.11	0.13	−0.03 (−0.20 to 0.14)