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. 2021 Apr 16;38(4):395–402. doi: 10.1093/fampra/cmaa141

Table 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of older people receiving physician-led visits in Japan, 2013–16

Total Followed up Lost to follow-up
n = 825 n = 738 n = 87
Biomedical variables
 Sex, n (%)
  Female 456 (55) 406 (55) 50 (57)
  Male 369 (45) 332 (45) 37 (43)
 Age, years, mean (SD) 83.4 (7.9) 83.2 (7.9) 84.4 (7.3)
 CCI, mean (SD) 2.7 (2.3) 2.8 (2.3) 1.8 (1.6)
 CCI, n (%)
  0–1 317 (39) 272 (37) 45 (52)
  2 167 (20) 151 (21) 16 (19)
  3–4 180 (22) 158 (22) 22 (26)
  ≥ 5 151 (19) 148 (20) 3 (3)
  Data missing 10 9 1
 Serum albumin level, mean (SD) 3.5 (0.7) 3.5 (0.7) 3.7 (0.5)
 Serum albumin level, n (%)
  0–3 207 (27) 198 (29) 9 (11)
  3.1–3.5 202 (26) 177 (26) 25 (30)
  3.6–3.9 154 (20) 137 (20) 17 (21)
  ≥ 4 207 (27) 176 (26) 31 (38)
  Data missing 55 50 5
 BI, mean (SD) 55.4 (32.6) 54.7 (32.8) 62.0 (29.6)
 BI, n (%)
  0–24 178 (22) 166 (23) 12 (14)
  25–59 205 (25) 183 (25) 22 (25)
  60–84 216 (26) 191 (26) 25 (29)
  ≥ 85 220 (27) 192 (26) 28 (32)
  Data missing 6 6 0
 Number of medications, mean (SD) 5.5 (3.7) 5.5 (3.7) 5.2 (3.7)
 Opioids, n (%) 28 (3) 28 (4) 0 (0)
 Gastrostoma, n (%) 10 (1) 10 (1) 0 (0)
 Respiratory devices, n (%) 4 (0) 4 (1) 0 (0)
 Domiciliary oxygen therapy, n (%) 50 (6) 46 (6) 4 (5)
 Urinary catheter, n (%) 39 (5) 38 (5) 1 (1)
 Dialysis, n (%) 3 (0) 3 (0) 0 (0)
 Pressure ulcer treatment recipient, n (%) 21 (3) 17 (2) 4 (5)
Psychological variables
 CSDD, mean (SD) 2.5 (2.8) 2.6 (2.9) 1.6 (2.1)
 CSDD, n (%)
  0 313 (39) 267 (37) 46 (53)
  1–2 181 (23) 164 (23) 17 (20)
  3–4 130 (16) 117 (16) 13 (15)
  ≥ 5 177 (22) 167 (23) 10 (12)
  Data missing 24 23 1
 MMSE-J, mean (SD) 18.6 (7.7) 18.5 (7.9) 19.1 (5.7)
 MMSE-J, n (%)
  0–14 173 (25) 159 (26) 14 (18)
  15–19 154 (22) 133 (21) 21 (27)
  20–23 167 (24) 139 (22) 28 (36)
  ≥ 24 205 (29) 190 (31) 15 (19)
  Data missing 126 117 9
Social variables
 Nursing home, n (%) 63 (8) 56 (8) 7 (8)
 Public assistance recipient, n (%) 115 (14) 92 (12) 23 (26)
 Full-time caregiver, n (%) 537 (65) 501 (68) 36 (41)
 Living alone, n (%) 193 (23) 153 (21) 40 (46)

BI, Barthel index; CCI, Charlson comorbidity index; CSDD, cornell scale for depression in dementia; MMSE-J, mini-mental state examination-Japanese; SD, standard deviation.