Table 6.
Units per patient of health care resource use in the evaluated cohorts during 2011
| Health care resource | Units per patient, mean (SD)
|
P | |
|---|---|---|---|
| FM (n=4,296) | No-FM (n=583,665) | ||
| Emergency-room visits | 0.9 (2.2) | 0.3 (0.9) | <0.0001 |
| Hospitalizations | 0.4 (1.0) | 0.2 (0.6) | <0.0001 |
| Office visits | 16.8 (17.4) | 11.1 (13.0) | <0.0001 |
| Outpatient visits (excluding office visits) | 4.5 (7.0) | 1.6 (4.2) | <0.0001 |
| Prescriptions administered/ordered | 15.1 (32.5) | 6.6 (29.1) | <0.0001 |
| Prescriptions written | 14.4 (16.4) | 7.2 (9.7) | <0.0001 |
| Prescription pain medications administered/ordered/written (excluding opioids) | 4.5 (6.7) | 1.6 (3.3) | <0.0001 |
| Opioid prescriptions administered/ordered/written | 3.5 (6.0) | 0.9 (2.8) | <0.0001 |
| Visits in which diagnostic/laboratory tests were ordered | 3.1 (4.4) | 1.1 (2.8) | <0.0001 |
| Visits in which imaging was ordered | 0.0 (0.3) | 0.0 (0.5) | 0.6755 |
Abbreviations: FM, fibromyalgia; SD, standard deviation.