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 6 Sensitivity analysis

Trend specification:\(P\)		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Number of practice visits	\(\delta\)	-0.260***	-0.117***	-0.161***	-0.176***	-0.192***	-0.157***	-0.115***	-0.122***
Number of practice visits	BIC	219,758.1	219,552.9	219,421.6	219,431.4	219,400.4	219,388.3	219,391.7	219,381.6
HbA1c-value	\(\delta\)	0.013	-0.002	-0.028	-0.04	-0.035	-0.036	0.018	0.012
HbA1c-value	BIC	50,502.8	50,510.9	50,500.1	50,509.5	50,510.5	50,510.5	50,512.2	50,510.8

δ: effect of the pandemic outbreak; BIC Bayesian Information Criterion; significance levels: ***0.01; **0.05; *0.1

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