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. 2022 Apr 9;22:471. doi: 10.1186/s12913-022-07841-6

Table 2.

Health service utilisation in the last 12 months for participants in the BDBP Study (n = 306)

Health Service Freq TOTAL n = 306 MRHT (Pre-pandemic) n = 41 UHL (Containment) n = 57 SVUH (Level 2) n = 77 SJUH (Level )5 n = 67 UHK (Level 3) n = 64 P value
Hospital Admission 0 65% 71% 67% 64% 65% 61% 0.914
1 21% 12% 25% 24% 18% 22%
2–3 11% 12% 5% 7% 17% 16%
4–6 2% 5% 0% 3% 0% 2%
7 +  1% 0% 4% 3% 0% 0%
Out-Patient Department 0 59% 46% 51% 58% 61% 72% 0.05
1 17% 12% 18% 23% 17% 13%
2–3 19% 24% 28% 16% 15% 13%
4–6 3% 15% 4% 0% 3% 0%
7 +  3% 2% 0% 3% 5% 3%
Emergency Department 0 49% 66% 46% 51% 47% 41% 0.198
1 24% 12% 30% 25% 26% 23%
2–3 22% 15% 21% 21% 24% 28%
4–6 3% 5% 2% 3% 3% 3%
7 +  2% 2% 2% 0% 0% 5%
Injury Unit 0 92% 100% 88% 90% 91% 94% 0.317
1 6% 0% 9% 7% 6% 6%
2–3 2% 0% 4% 3% 2% 0%
4–6 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
7 +   < 1% 0% 0% 0% 2% 0%
Out-of-Hours (OOH) GP 0 74% 78% 75% 77% 72% 69% 0.670
1 14% 10% 14% 14% 19% 14%
2–3 10% 10% 11% 9% 9% 14%
4–6 1% 3% 0% 0% 0% 3%
7 +  0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
General Practitioner (GP) 0 10% 7% 7% 11% 18% 6% 0.005
1 19% 12% 14% 28% 15% 22%
2–3 37% 27% 46% 30% 49% 30%
4–6 17% 24% 14% 18% 11% 19%
7 +  17% 29% 19% 13 8% 23%
Public Health Nurse 0 83% 83% 84% 82% 82% 86% 0.977
1 6% 2, 5% 1, 2% 4, 5% 7, 11% 5, 8%
2–3 5% 1, 2% 5, 9% 4, 5% 5, 8% 1, 2%
4–6 2% 2, 5% 2, 4% 3, 4% 0, 0% 0, 0%
7 +  3% 2, 5% 1, 2% 2, 3% 0, 0% 3, 5%
Allied Health Professional 0 75% 66% 79% 72% 77% 81% 0.418
1 8% 5% 2% 15% 9% 6%
2–3 10% 17% 7% 11% 11% 6%
4–6 6% 12% 11% 3% 2% 5%
7 +  1% 0% 2% 0% 2% 2%

aP-value from from Kruskal–Wallis test