Implementation of chronic illness care in German primary care practices – how do multimorbid older patients view routine care? A cross-sectional study using multilevel hierarchical modeling

Table 2 Score distributions of the PACIC ^a

	Mean	SD
Overall PACIC score^b	2.4	0.8
Patient activation	2.6	1.2
Delivery system design/decision support	3.5	0.7
Goal setting/tailoring	2.0	1.0
Problem solving/contextual	2.5	1.1
Follow-up/coordination	2.1	0.9

^aEach PACIC item is scored on a five-point Likert scale that ranges from 1 (‘almost never’) to 5 (‘almost always’), with higher scores indicating better patient-perceived quality of chronic illness care.
^bThese analyses are based on n = 3189 patients; missing PACIC sum scores were imputed.

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