Table 3 Healthcare utilization patients in 2013 and one-year all-cause mortality (k = 6)
Healthcare utilization / mortality a | Class 1 Relatively healthy | Class 2 Stable metabolic disease | Class 3 Metabolic disease with vascular complications | Class 4 High respiratory disease burden | Class 5 High metabolic disease without complication | Class 6 Metabolic disease with multi-organ complication | Overall | p-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number of primary care outpatient clinic visits, (SD) | 2.0 (3.9) | 5.3 (3.9) | 6.0 (5.5) | 4.7 (6.0) | 6.2 (4.2) | 4.9 (7.6) | 3.5 (4.4) | < 0.001 |
Number of outpatient specialist clinic visit, (SD) | 1.6 (4.6) | 2.7 (5.9) | 4.7 (7.8) | 3.8 (7.5) | 2.6 (5.7) | 8.6 (11.9) | 2.2 (5.5) | < 0.001 |
Number of hospital admission, (SD) | 0.1 (0.4) | 0.1 (0.5) | 0.5 (1.1) | 0.3 (0.9) | 0.1 (0.5) | 1.0 (1.7) | 0.1 (0.5) | < 0.001 |
Number of emergency department visits, (SD) | 0.1 (0.5) | 0.1 (0.6) | 0.5 (1.8) | 0.6 (2.0) | 0.2 (0.6) | 1.0 (1.8) | 0.1 (0.7) | < 0.001 |
One-year all-cause mortality | 179 (0.3) | 207 (0.8) | 139 (4.7) | 19 (1.7) | 125 (1.1) | 92 (8.9) | 761 (0.8) | < 0.001 |