Table 3.

Determinants of the probability and number of contacts with primary care and hospitalizations among the whole multimorbid population sample (16 603 patients; 8239 in the control group and 8364 in the intervention group)

	AOR
	Probability of contacta	Number of contactsb
Primary care
2014 Group	1.87 (1.68‐2.08)	0.99 (0.97‐1.01)
Female	0.74 (0.67‐0.83)	1.07 (1.05‐1.09)
Age ≥80	0.53 (0.47‐0.59)	1.11 (1.09‐1.13)
DM&HF vs those with all three diseases	0.86 (0.72‐1.02)	0.86 (0.83‐0.88)
DM&COPD vs those with all three diseases	1.03 (0.85‐1.23)	0.67 (0.65‐0.69)
HF&COPD vs those with all three diseases	0.74 (0.61‐0.89)	0.85 (0.82‐0.88)
Death	4.21 (2.98‐6.04)	1.34 (1.27‐1.41)
Follow‐up (mo)	1.44 (1.39‐1.49)	0.95 (0.94‐0.96)
Hospitalization
2014 Group	0.99 (0.95‐1.03)	0.99 (0.97‐1.02)
Female	0.97 (0.92‐1.01)	0.97 (0.94‐1.00)
Age ≥ 80	1.13 (1.08‐1.19)	0.91 (0.88‐0.93)
DM&HF vs those with all three diseases	0.48 (0.45‐0.52)	0.85 (0.82‐0.89)
DM&COPD vs those with all three diseases	0.32 (0.30‐0.35)	0.79 (0.76‐0.82)
HF&COPD vs those with all three diseases	0.66 (0.61‐0.71)	0.90 (0.86‐0.94)
Death	8.52 (7.40‐9.83)	0.96 (0.91‐1.01)
Follow‐up (mo)	1.14 (1.12‐1.16)	0.84 (0.83‐0.85)

AOR, adjusted odds ratio; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; DM, diabetes mellitus; HF, heart failure.

^aBy logistic regression.

^bBy generalized linear models.