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Table 3 Outpatient medical care. Information from the official statistics of Stockholm County for the study year for the patients (n = 116) receiving primary-care home nursing (information missing for one patient).

From: The medical care of patients with primary care home nursing is complex and influenced by non-medical factors: a comprehensive retrospective study from a suburban area in Sweden

  

Patients

No. of visits by those who made visits

Type of care

Type of caregiver

N

%

n

Median

Min – max

All forms of specialised care

All professions

83

72

957

5

1–173

 

Doctor

80

70

356

3

1–23

 

Physiotherapist or occupational therapist

18

16

147

5.5

1–33

 

Other1 or unknown

60

52

454

2

1–166

Emergency hospital specialities2

All professions

78

68

785

5

1–173

 

Doctor

76

66

322

2.5

1–23

 

Physiotherapist or occupational therapist

7

6

52

4

1–23

 

Other1 or unknown

52

45

411

2

1–166

Geriatric speciality

All professions

18

16

168

5

1–45

 

Doctor

15

13

34

2

1–8

 

Physiotherapist or occupational therapist

13

11

95

4

1–33

 

Other1 or unknown

12

10

39

2.5

1–9

Psychiatry

All professions

2

2

4

-

2–2

  1. 1 E.g. nurse, welfare officer, speech therapist, dietician, 2 E.g. internal medicine, surgery, orthopaedics, ophthalmology, dermatology All forms of care includes care at emergency hospital specialities, geriatric care, and psychiatric care. All professions includes doctors, physiotherapists and occupational therapists and other or unknown caregivers