Table 6.

Outpatient visits five years to one year before, or one year after hospitalisation of patients with a hospital diagnosis of IBS in 2015 in France

	Before hospitalisation									After hospitalisation
Years	−5	−4	−3	−2	−1 year					+ 1 year
	All	All	All	All	All*	18–39	40–59	60–74	75 +	All*	18–39	40–59	60–74	75 +
N					29,509	7040	12,081	7883	2505
	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
General practitioner
0	1.1	1.3	1.6	2.1	3.6	3.3	3.2	3.1	8.6	6.6	7.4	6.2	4.6	12.9
1–2	1.4	1.8	2.5	4.5	12.3	14.4	13.9	9.1	8.5	15.4	20.0	16.8	11.3	9.0
≥ 3	97.4	96.9	95.9	93.4	84.1°	82.4	83.0	87.8	82.9	77.9°	72.7	77.0	84.0	78.2
Gastroenterologist
0	17.5	18.2	19.2	20.2	21.6	21.9	19.6	20.4	34.2	80.8	77.9	82.6	81.0	79.2
1–2	67.0	68.9	70.8	72.6	74.3	73.2	77.0	75.3	61.0	16.1	18.5	14.7	15.8	17.2
≥ 3	15.5	12.9	10.0	7.2	4.1	4.9	3.4	4.2	4.9	3.1	3.5	2.7	3.2	3.6
Psychiatrist
0	78.0	80.4	82.9	86.1	90.0	91.2	89.1	90.3	90.1	89.1	89.8	88.0	90.1	89.1
1–2	9.8	8.8	7.7	6.4	4.9	4.3	4.7	5.1	7.3	5.3	4.9	5.3	5.1	7.5
≥ 3	12.3	10.9	9.3	7.5	5.1	4.5	6.2	4.7	2.7	5.6	5.3	6.7	4.8	3.4
All specialists
0	2.3	2.7	3.4	4.4	6.1	6.5	5.3	5.6	10.6	42.7	40.8	45.2	42.7	36.6
1–2	26.1	30.3	36.1	43.9	56.5	54.3	58.5	57.2	50.2	29.7	31.2	28.2	29.8	31.7
≥ 3	71.6	67.0	60.6	51.7	37.4	39.2	36.2	37.2	39.2	27.6	28.0	26.5	27.5	31.7

*P < 0.0001 for distribution comparisons between “all −1 year” vs “all 1 year”)