Table 2.
The proportion of patients with chronic diseases distributed over contact types 1
| |
Telephone consultation |
Telephone referral |
Clinical consultation |
Home visit |
All |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The unique patients are diagnosed to: | n | (%) | n | (%) | N | (%) | N | (%) | n | (%) |
| 0: None of the five diagnoses |
2,076 |
(70.3) |
1,322 |
(65.0) |
3,049 |
(79,1) |
2,571 |
(50.5) |
9,018 |
(64.9) |
| 1: Only one of the five diagnoses |
694 |
(23.5) |
549 |
(27.0) |
674 |
(17.5) |
674 |
(33.5) |
3,624 |
(25.9) |
| 2: Two or more of the five diagnoses |
183 |
(6.2) |
162 |
(8.0) |
130 |
(3.4) |
813 |
(16.0) |
1,288 |
(9.2) |
| Total | 2,953 | (100.0) | 1,975 | (100.0) | 3,853 | (100.0) | 5,152 | (100.0) | 13,930 | (100.0) |
1The number of identified patients for each contact type is calculated without consideration of patients with more than one of the chronic diseases; consequently, the total will sum up to more than 13,930 unique patients with chronic diseases.