Table 2 Patient and disease characteristics of profiles of diabetes-related primary healthcare of diabetes type II patients
Diabetes-related primary healthcare | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Profile 1 | Profile 2 | Profile 3 | |
‘high utilisation and | ‘low utilisation, GP only’ | ‘high utilisation, | |
frequent home | (n=3231) | GP and nurse’ | |
visits’ | (n=3097) | ||
(n=393) | |||
Gender (% female) | 73.5 | 50.8 | 48.0 |
Age | |||
18-34 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 0.5 |
35-44 | 0.8 | 5.9 | 3.7 |
45-54 | 1.0 | 14.3 | 13.2 |
55-64 | 3.3 | 26.3 | 29.4 |
65-74 | 16.8 | 26.1 | 30.6 |
75 and older | 77.9 | 25.7 | 22.5 |
Urbanisation | |||
2500 or more addresses per square km | 27.0 | 26.5 | 13.2 |
1500-2499 addresses per square km | 20.9 | 27.3 | 31.8 |
1000-1499 addresses per square km | 20.9 | 21.8 | 13.3 |
500-999 addresses per square km | 14.5 | 11.3 | 15.7 |
<500 addresses per square km | 16.8 | 13.1 | 26.0 |
Main medication | |||
No medication | 16.0 | 32.3 | 25.1 |
Oral medication only | 61.3 | 54.6 | 61.6 |
Oral medication and insulin | 22.7 | 13.1 | 13.3 |
Related comorbidity | |||
Heart diseases | 21.4 | 10.5 | 15.2 |
Stroke | 10.7 | 3.3 | 3.2 |
Retinopathy | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.6 |
Nephropathy | 6.6 | 1.9 | 2.6 |
Diabetic foot | 2.8 | 2.1 | 1.8 |
Non-related comorbidity | |||
Depression | 8.7 | 3.9 | 4.3 |
Lung diseases | 18.1 | 9.0 | 12.0 |
Musculoskeletal diseases | 36.4 | 27.0 | 28.0 |
Neurological diseases | 2.0 | 1.2 | 1.1 |
Cancer | 8.1 | 3.7 | 3.4 |