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Table 4 Healthcare utilization and registered chronic somatic diagnoses in OST patients with regular PHC and on-site PHC. N = 190. Chi-2 test or Fisher’s exact test

From: Healthcare utilization for somatic conditions among Swedish patients in opioid substitution treatment, with and without on-site primary healthcare

 

N included in analysisa

Regular PHC

n (%)

On-site PHC

n (%)

p-value

Total N

190

165

25

 

Any healthcare contact

189

143 (87)

25 (100)

0.082b

Any healthcare visit

188

135 (82)

25 (100)

0.029*b

Primary care contact

190

101 (61)

25 (100)

 < 0.001*b

Primary care visit

190

83 (50)

25 (100)

 < 0.001*b

Emergency care contact

190

49 (30)

8 (32)

0.815

Emergency care visit

190

45 (27)

7 (28)

0.939

Secondary care contact

188

105 (64)

21 (84)

0.052

Secondary care visit

186

94 (57)

15 (60)

0.491

Infectious diseases (ICD-10 A00-B99)

190

55 (33)

19 (76)

 < 0.001*

Tumors (ICD-10 C00-D48)

190

5 (3)

2 (8)

0.231b

Hematologic diseases (ICD-10 D50-D89)

190

9 (6)

0

0.609b

Endocrine diseases (ICD-10 E00-E90)

190

23 (14)

7 (28)

0.082b

Eye diseases (ICD-10 H00-H59)

190

5 (3)

2 (8)

0.231b

Ear diseases (ICD-10 H60-H95)

190

4 (2)

3 (12)

0.050*b

Neurological diseases (ICD-10 G00-G99)

190

13 (8)

7 (28)

0.007*b

Circulatory diseases (ICD-10 I00-I99)

190

23 (14)

3 (12)

1.000b

Respiratory diseases (ICD-10 J00-J99)

190

32 (19)

6 (24)

0.592

Gastrointestinal diseases (ICD-10 K00-K93)

190

25 (15)

8 (32)

0.049*b

Dermatologic diseases (ICD-10 L00-L99)

190

34 (21)

11 (44)

0.010*

Musculoskeletal diseases (ICD-10 M00-M99)

190

36 (22)

13 (52)

0.001*

Urogenital diseases (ICD-10 N00-N99)

190

17 (10)

3 (12)

0.732b

Obstetrics (ICD-10 O00-O99)

190

2 (1)

0

1.000b

Symptoms (ICD-10 R00-R99)

190

51 (31)

19 (76)

 < 0.001*

Trauma, poisoning etc. (ICD-10 S00-T98)

190

37 (22)

9 (36)

0.140

  1. OST Opioid substitution treatment, PHC Primary healthcare
  2. a. Missing numbers are included in the denominator. b. Fisher’s exact test (for variables with low cell counts)
  3. * p < 0.05