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Table 4 Sociodemographic, clinician and care characteristics of the survivors and nonsurvivor chronic patients

From: Adjusted morbidity groups and survival: a retrospective cohort study of primary care patients with chronic conditions

Variables n (%)

Survivors

9,389 (95.2)

Nonsurvivors

477 (4.8)

p

Female

5,783 (61.6)

273 (57.2)

0.05

Age *

54.6 (20.3)

78.7 (16.3)

< 0.01

Age over 65-year-old

3,095 (33.0)

388 (81.3)

< 0.01

Risk Level

Low

7,459 (79.4)

179 (37.5)

< 0.01

Medium

1,618 (17.2)

166 (34.8)

High

312 (3.3)

132 (27.7)

Immobilized

172 (1.8)

128 (26.8)

< 0.01

Institutionalized

96 (1.0)

65 (13.6)

< 0.01

Primary caregiver

135 (1.4)

94 (19.7)

< 0.01

Home support

54 (0.6)

26 (5.5)

< 0.01

Palliative care

15 (0.2)

29 (6.1)

< 0.01

Complexity index *

6.2 (6.0)

16.3 (14.8)

< 0.01

No. of chronic conditions *

2.4 (1.7)

4.3 (2.5)

< 0.01

1 chronic condition

2 chronic conditions

3 chronic conditions

4 chronic conditions

5 chronic conditions

> 5 chronic conditions

3,768 (40.1)

2,124 (22.6)

1,407 (15.0)

929 (9.9)

555 (5.9)

606 (6.2)

62 (13.0)

61 (12.8)

80 (16.8)

92 (19.3)

54 (11.3)

128 (26.8)

< 0.01

< 0.01

0.287

< 0.01

< 0.01

< 0.01

Multimorbidity

5,621 (59.9)

415 (87.0)

< 0.01

Arterial hypertension

3,085 (32.9)

333 (69.8)

< 0.01

Chronic heart failure

157 (1.7)

83 (17.4)

< 0.01

Chronic renal insufficiency

92 (1.0)

50 (10.5)

< 0.01

Cirrhosis

456 (4.8)

23 (4.9)

0.9

COPD

326 (3.5)

63 (13.2)

< 0.01

Dementia

140 (1.5)

73 (15.3)

< 0.01

Depression

1,165 (12.4)

86 (18.0)

< 0.01

Diabetes Mellitus

954 (10.2)

109 (22.9)

< 0.01

Ischaemic heart disease

304 (3.2)

66 (13.8)

< 0.01

Neoplasia

388 (4.1)

93 (19.5)

< 0.01

Obesity

1,558 (16.6)

68 (14.3)

0.18

Stroke

216 (2.3)

51 (10.7)

< 0.01

Polymedicated

1,306 (13.9)

292 (61.2)

< 0.01

  1. *\(\overline X\) (SD). COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. a p value shows the differences between survivors and nonsurvivors based on the bivariate analysis