TABLE 4.
Descriptive Variables Related to Health Care Services, Stratified by Patient and Prescription Level, Between July 2017 and June 2018 in Catalonia
| Patient Level (n = 715 895) | Prescription Level (n = 1 539 003) | |
|---|---|---|
| Use of PC health care services made by the patienta | ||
| Visits to a clinician, mean (± SD)b | — | 6.08 (6.02) |
| Visits to a nurse, mean (± SD)b | — | 3.00 (3.63) |
| Appointments with a social worker, n (%)c | 11 633 (1.62) | 27 578 (1.79) |
| Specialty of the prescribing clinician, n (%) | ||
| Pediatrician, including PC and SC | — | 907 364 (58.96) |
| PC clinician, includes general practitioners and family physicians | — | 560 277 (36.41) |
| SC clinician | — | 71 362 (4.64) |
| Characteristics of the center where the prescription was issued, n (%) | ||
| PC center | — | 1 137 032 (73.88) |
| After-hours PC centerd | — | 163 486 (10.62) |
| SC center | — | 238 485 (15.50) |
—, not applicable because these only refer to patient or prescription characteristics.
Information recorded at the time of prescription was used for time-dependent variables.
During the year before the new prescription assessed.
During the study period (July 2017 to June 2018).
This group includes only those specific emergency ambulatory care centers: Centre d'Urgències d'Atenció Primària, Atenció Continuada i de les Urgències de base Territorial, Centre d'Atenció Continuada, Punts d'Atenció Continuada, and dispositius d’atenció urgent aïllats o de muntanya. For the other 2 types of centers (PC or SC) we cannot differentiate whether the visit was scheduled or urgent or unscheduled.