Are community-living and institutionalized dementia patients cared for differently? Evidence on service utilization and costs of care from German insurance claims data

Table 3 Per capita health care service utilization in 2006 according to care levels

Setting-specific utilization volume of health care services per capita according to care level adjusted for age, gender, comorbidity, mortality and single interactions
	No care level	Care level 1			Care level 2			Care level 3
	Community	Institution	Community	p-value	Institution	Community	p-value	Institution	Community	p-value
	(n=3,325)	(n=705)	(n=1,059)	p-value	(n=1,201)	(n=729)	p-value	(n=1,028)	(n=371)	p-value
General practitioner (v)	28.9	52.4	33.2	***	55.0	35.8	***	54.5	40.8	***
Medical specialist (v)	10.8	12.6	8.7	***	15.0	7.2	***	12.3	6.4	***
Medication (p)	25.1	36.5	32.5	***	42.1	37.9	**	38.4	46.8	***
of which anti-dementia drugs (p)	0.7	0.5	1.0	**	0.4	0.8	*	0.2	0.5	ns
Hospital treatment (d)	5.8	6.3	8.4	*	7.6	8.3	ns	6.4	7.0	ns
Non-physician services (p)	0.5	1.2	0.9	*	2.0	1.5	*	1.8	2.0	ns
Medical aids (p)	0.8	3.3	1.2	***	5.0	1.6	***	6.3	3.6	***
Rehabilitation (d)	1.3	0.1	1.8	***	0.3	4.2	**	0.0	0.2	ns
Home health care (p)	1.3	not provided	3.3		not provided	3.7		not provided	4.3	./.

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