Table 1 Primary care provider and patient characteristics

Expenditures in Euro per patient

306.70

84.63

194.25

297.31

481.31

Non-diagnostic characteristics

Number of GPs

2.39

1.5

1.0

2.0

6.0

Age of GPs

53.57

7.67

42.00

53.67

66.00

Proportion of female GPs

0.51

0.35

0.0

0.5

1.0

Patient sex (proportion female)

0.58

0.09

0.42

0.57

0.72

Patient age (proportion 40–67)

0.56

0.11

0.40

0.56

0.76

Patient age (proportion 68+)

0.45

0.11

0.24

0.44

0.61

Number of patients

67.3

Number of diagnoses

761.2

Number of visits

525.0

Number of diagnoses per visit

1.49

0.66

0.82

1.29

3.14

Number of visits per patient

7.59

1.98

5.13

7.43

11.84