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Table 3 Application rates of general practitioners (GPs) and general internal medicine (GIM) physicians for procedures performed to a greater extent by GPs (in %)

From: Procedures performed by general practitioners and general internal medicine physicians - a comparison based on routine data from Northern Germany

Code

Description

2013

2015

GP (n = 1228)

GIM (n = 447)

p-value*

GP (n = 1227)

GIM (n = 484)

p-value*

02310

Secondary healing wound care and/or decubital ulcer care

60.4

43.6

< 0.001

64.6

44.0

< 0.001

02301

Minor surgery II: primary wound closure with sutures

39.0

13.4

< 0.001

37.8

16.7

< 0.001

01734

Examination for faecal occult blood according to stage D.-III of the early detection of cancer-guideline, including costs

27.2

22.1

n.s.

27.9

24.8

n.s.

01720

Adolescent health examination “(J1)”

27.1

13.9

< 0.001

25.5

9.5

< 0.001

02312

Treatment of single or multiple chronic venous ulcers

23.2

17.4

n.s.

23.5

17.8

n.s.

01718

Well-child visit during the 46th to 48th month of life “(U8)”

13.8

2.5

< 0.001

12.2

1.2

< 0.001

01719

Well-child visit during the 60th to 64th month of life “(U9)”

13.6

2.0

< 0.001

13.9

1.4

< 0.001

02302

Minor surgery III: excisions, treatment of ingrown toenails, phlebotomy

13.0

2.0

< 0.001

12.1

2.1

< 0.001

01723

Well-child visit during the 43rd to 36th month of life “(U7a)”

10.9

1.6

< 0.001

11.8

1.7

< 0.001

01717

Well-child visit during the 21st to 24th month of life “(U7)”

10.6

0.9

< 0.001

10.2

1.0

< 0.001

01716

Well-child visit during the 10th and 12th month of life “(U6)”

10.3

1.8

< 0.001

8.6

1.2

< 0.001

01715

Well-child visit during the 6th and 8th month of life “(U5)”

8.3

1.3

< 0.001

8.2

1.2

< 0.001

01714

Well-child visit during the 3rd and 4th month of life “(U4)”

8.1

1.1

< 0.001

7.1

1.2

< 0.001

01713

Well-child visit during the 4th and 5th week of life “(U3)”

6.4

0.9

< 0.001

6.4

0.6

< 0.001

02500

Single inhalation therapy

5.3

2.5

n.s.

4.9

2.3

n.s.

03335

Exploratory audiometry after previously documented, hearing test anomalies

3.7

1.6

n.s.

3.1

0.8

n.s.

01730

Cancer screening for women

3.2

0.0

0.010

1.8

0.0

n.s.

01712

Well-child visit of the new-born during the 3rd to 10th day of life

2.5

0.0

n.s.

2.4

0.2

n.s.

  1. *Bonferroni correction
  2. only procedures with percentages larger than 1.0% for at least one specialty are shown
  3. bold percentages indicate a significant difference between 2013 and 2015 (at the 5% level)
  4. n.s. not significant (at the 5% level)
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