Table 3. Mean cumulative sick leave days, number of hospital stays, diagnoses and prescriptions over 18 months after the start of the integrated care contract for different diagnoses.
| Homeopathy | Control | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | N utilization | Mean (95% CI) | N utilization | Mean (95% CI) | p-value |
| Sick leave days | 7960 | 18.77 (17.96–19.58) | 7954 | 15.97 (15.26–16.67) | <0.0001 |
| Number of hospital stays | 4709 | 0.36 (0.34–0.37) | 4344 | 0.31 (0.30–0.32) | <0.0001 |
| Cumulative number of diagnoses | |||||
| Mental and behavioural (F) | 13450 | 0.60 (0.60–0.61) | 9774 | 0.44 (0.43–0.45) | 0.03 |
| Respiratory system (J) | 15385 | 0.69 (0.68–0.70) | 14096 | 0.63 (0.63–0.64) | <0.0001 |
| Musculoskeletal system (M) | 13175 | 0.59 (0.59–0.60) | 11956 | 0.54 (0.53–0.54) | 0.033 |
| Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R) | 14978 | 0.67 (0.67–0.68) | 12254 | 0.55 (0.54–0.56) | <0.0001 |
| Number of prescriptions | 19851 | 10.40 (10.2–10.6) | 20233 | 10.69 (10.5–10.9) | 0.034 |