Table 5.
Health care use within twelve months after injury by patients with and without post-concussion syndrome (PCS), by chronic disease status.
| Service | Total Sample | No Chronic Disease | With Chronic Disease | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No PCS | PCS | No PCS | PCS | No PCS | PCS | ||
| Hospitalization | 47.0% | 56.7% | 45.2% | 53.4% | 48.5% | 58.3% | |
| Post-discharge health care utilization | |||||||
| Specialist | 62.4% | 73.8% | 61.2% | 76.7% | 63.4% | 72.6% | |
| Outpatient rehabilitation | 7.3% | 18.4% | 6.6% | 27.2% | 9.1% | 13.7% | |
| General practitioner | 32.1% | 60.6% | 30.9% | 63.1% | 34.7% | 60.0% | |
| Physiotherapist | 56.9% | 66.3% | 57.0% | 69.9% | 56.6% | 64.6% | |
| Psychologist | 4.5% | 20.2% | 4.4% | 28.2% | 5.0% | 16.0% | |
| Nursing care at home | 15.2% | 30.5% | 10.7% | 23.3% | 22.6% | 35.4% | |
| Weighted data a | |||||||
| Hospitalization | 26.7% | 29.4% | 20.2% | 24.8% | 35.0% | 31.1% | |
| Post-discharge health care utilization | |||||||
| Specialist | 57.9% | 71.5% | 62.0% | 78.3% | 51.4% | 67.2% | |
| Outpatient rehabilitation | 5.2% | 15.9% | 5.9% | 25.1% | 4.5% | 9.5% | |
| General practitioner | 29.5% | 62.0% | 27.7% | 66.1% | 31.8% | 59.9% | |
| Physiotherapist | 46.7% | 59.5% | 51.4% | 66.1% | 40.0% | 54.9% | |
| Psychologist | 4.6% | 19.6% | 3.6% | 26.9% | 6.2% | 14.6% | |
| Nursing care at home | 9.5% | 23.7% | 6.8% | 16.6% | 12.6% | 29.3% | |
PCS: Post-concussion syndrome (≥3 of the core post-concussion symptoms). a Data are corrected for stratification, and are representative of an adult population of injured patients who visited an emergency department in The Netherlands.