Table 2.
Healthcare utilisation in primary and secondary care.
| Resource | Measure | FA/OI (N = 305) | FA/MUS (N = 264) | Non-FA (N = 11,361) |
p-Value |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FA/OI vs. FA/MUS | Non-FA vs. FA/MUS | |||||
| Primary care | ||||||
| Primary care consultations (over 12 months) | Mean (SD) | 24.7 (7.6) | 22.3 (7.1) | 3.9 (4.6) | <.001 | <.001 |
| Median (IQR) | 23.0 (19.0, 28.0) | 20.0 (18.0, 25.0) | 2.0 (0.6) | .42 | <.001 | |
| Secondary care | ||||||
| Specialist consultations | Mean (SD) per 1,000 patients* | 4554.1 (2953.2) | 4234.8 (2691.7) | 916.4 (1488.8) | .25 | <.001 |
| Hospital care | 783.6 (1117.6) | 299.2 (656.5) | 55 (307.3) | <.001 | <.001 | |
| Diagnostic tests | 3613.1 (2814.6) | 4003.8 (3035.3) | 715.2 (1367.9) | .15 | <.001 | |
| Emergency care | 550.8 (672.4) | 522.7 (713.4) | 106.8 (348) | .38 | <.001 | |
| Laboratory tests | 49.2 (216.6) | 98.5 (298.5) | 37.6 (222.6) | .02 | <.001 | |
| Services provided by health professionals | 744.3 (1205.9) | 863.6 (1363.7) | 121.1 (501.5) | .66 | <.001 | |
| Medical equipment | 6.6 (80.8) | 11.4 (106.2) | 1.8 (41.9) | .54 | .0005 | |
| Surgical procedures (PRG) | 836.1 (1158.2) | 500 (822.7) | 128.4 (435.8) | <.001 | <.001 | |
*In secondary care, standard utilisation figures were generally close to 0. This is because in a given year, most patients do not utilise every type of medical service. Therefore, utilisation rates were shown for 1,000 patients to represent meaningful trends. The mean (SD) was calculated for FA/OI, FA/MUS and Non-FA and then extrapolated to 1000, for scale. Median data is not shown, as it would remain close to 0 and provide little added information.