The use of routine data from primary care practices in Germany to analyze the impact of the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 on the utilization of primary care services for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Table 5 Multivariate analysis of the Covid-Outbreak

Variable	Utilization: Number of practice visits		Course of the disease: HbA1c
Trend specification:\(P\)	8	8	3	3
Quarter (Reference: Quarter 1)
Quarter 2	-0.023*	-0.023*	-0.060***	-0.060***
Quarter 3	0.029***	0.030***	-0.134***	-0.135***
Quarter 4	0.003	0.003	-0.097***	-0.097***
Covid-Outbreak (\(\delta\))	-0.122***	-0.189***	-0.028	-0.001
DMP	0.450***	0.407***	0.303***	0.318***
Covid- Outbreak (\(\delta\)) X DMP		0.092***		-0.032
Age (2020q1)	0.036***	0.036***	0.015	0.015
Age² (2020q1)	-0.000***	-0.000***	0.000	0.000
Female	0.085***	0.085***	-0.092**	-0.092**
Number of prescribed medications in the previous quarter	0.019***	0.019***	-0.002**	-0.002***
Observations	69,193	69,193	23,263	23,263
BIC	219,381.6	219,365.5	50,500.1	50,508.8
Model (link function\(g\))	Negative Binomial		Linear

Significance levels: ***0.01; **0.05; *0.1; BIC Bayesian-Information-Criterion; coefficients of other control variables and the trend specification are not shown due to space considerations but can be found in Table S2

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