Paradoxical use category | |||
---|---|---|---|
Non-PV patients | Single PV patients | Multiple PV patients | |
Number of patients | 119 824 | 2515 | 300 |
Distribution; # (%) | |||
Demographic | |||
Age, years | |||
17–44 | 46.3 | 56.5 | 54.3 |
45–64 | 28.6 | 26.1 | 36.0 |
65+ | 25.1 | 17.4 | 9.7 |
Sex | |||
Female | 53.2 | 56.4 | 53.7 |
Geography | |||
Living in Winnipeg core | 16.9 | 35.7 | 53.0 |
Income quintile | |||
Q1 (lowest)* | 26.8 | 46.0 | 27.3 |
Q2 and Q3 | 38.5 | 30.5 | 38.3 |
Q4 and Q5 (highest) | 34.7 | 23.5 | 34.4 |
Patient illness | |||
Physical diseases† | |||
Arthritis | 39.3 | 43.5 | 54.7 |
Asthma | 24.7 | 32.0 | 45.0 |
Diabetes | 13.9 | 15.0 | 20.3 |
Ischaemic heart disease | 12.5 | 10.7 | 12.7 |
Stroke | 6.7 | 6.5 | 7.3 |
Mental illness† | |||
Anxiety and depression | 34.6 | 54.5 | 77.3 |
Dementia | 5.0 | 5.5 | 8.0 |
Personality disorder | 2.0 | 7.0 | 18.3 |
Schizophrenia | 1.7 | 3.7 | 13.7 |
Substance abuse | 9.2 | 27.4 | 54.7 |
Concurrent healthcare use | |||
Frequency of ED use | |||
Non-frequent (1–6 visits) | 97.5 | 86.4 | 34.3 |
Frequent (7–17 visits) | 2.4 | 12.1 | 40.7 |
Highly frequent (18+ visits) | 0.1 | 1.5 | 25.0 |
# of primary care physician visits | |||
0 | 13.9 | 13.4 | 10.3 |
1–6 | 53.8 | 42.9 | 33.3 |
7+ | 32.3 | 43.6 | 56.3 |
# of specialist physician visits | |||
0 | 56.9 | 59.8 | 59.7 |
1 | 15.4 | 15.6 | 14.0 |
2+ | 27.2 | 24.7 | 26.3 |
# of hospital admissions | |||
0 | 91.9 | 90.3 | 87.7 |
1+ | 8.1 | 9.7 | 12.3 |
Proximity to death | |||
≤180 days of reference (last) ED visit | 4.3 | 3.2 | 7.0 |
*Includes 1.7% of ED patients for whom income quintile could not be assigned.
†Percentage values for individual diseases do not total 100%.