Table 2.
Summary of physiotherapy service data between the intervention and control practices.
| Quarter | Intervention general practices (A and B) |
Control general practices (C and D) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP/nurse referral n (%) |
GP/nurse recommended referral n (%) |
True self-referral n (%) |
Total number of referrals | Average number of sessions per patient | GP/nurse referral n (%) |
GP/nurse recommended referral n (%) |
True self-referral n (%) |
Total number of referrals | Average number of sessions per patient | |
| 1q.2015 | 7 (5.1) | 117 (84.8) | 14 (10.1) | 138 | 3.0 | 133 (100) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 133 | 3.4 |
| 2q.2015 | 7 (4.4) | 142 (89.9) | 9 (5.7) | 158 | 3.1 | 157 (100) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 157 | 3.4 |
| 3q.2015 | 11 (9.5) | 94 (81.0) | 11 (9.5) | 116 | 3.1 | 120 (100) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 120 | 3.2 |
| 4q.2015 | 13 (11.1) | 93 (79.5) | 11 (9.4) | 117 | 3.0 | 103 (100) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 103 | 3.1 |
| 1q.2016 | 19 (20.4) | 66 (71.0) | 8 (8.6) | 93 | 3.0 | 107 (87.7) | 11 (9.0) | 4 (3.3) | 122 | 3.0 |
| 2q.2016 | 26 (16.8) | 117 (75.5) | 12 (7.7) | 155 | 3.3 | 90 (62.1) | 51 (35.2) | 4 (2.8) | 145 | 3.0 |
| 3q.2016 | 21 (17.2) | 92 (75.4) | 9 (7.4) | 122 | 2.5 | 43 (36.1) | 72 (60.5) | 4 (3.4) | 119 | 2.6 |
| 4q.2016 | 14 (15.1) | 72 (77.4) | 7 (7.5) | 93 | 2.3 | 33 (29.7) | 74 (66.7) | 4 (3.6) | 111 | 2.3 |
| 1q.2017 | 10 (10.0) | 74 (74.0) | 16 (16.0) | 100 | 2.4 | 45 (23.9) | 123 (65.4) | 20 (10.6) | 188 | 2.5 |
| 2q.2017 | 15 (19.0) | 52 (65.8) | 12 (15.2) | 79 | 2.8 | 10 (8.1) | 100 (80.6) | 14 (11.3) | 124 | 2.8 |
| 3q.2017 | 9 (10.8) | 64 (77.1) | 10 (12.0) | 83 | 2.9 | 13 (10.9) | 100 (84.0) | 6 (5.0) | 119 | 2.8 |
| 4q.2017 | 6 (11.5) | 39 (75.0) | 7 (13.5) | 52 | 3.3 | 4 (4.7) | 76 (88.4) | 6 (7.0) | 86 | 3.0 |
Italicized area is 4q.2015, when direct access to physiotherapy was introduced to the control practices; % of total referral.