Table 1 Characteristics of patients at Ryd and Ödeshög PHC centres
From: The importance of comorbidity in analysing patient costs in Swedish primary care
Ödeshög | Ryd | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
2001 | 2002 | 2001 | 2002 | |
Number of patients | ||||
- enrolled | 5 600 | 5 600 | 9 000 | 9 000 |
- contacting the PHC | 4 075 | 4 122 | 5 163 | 6 539 |
- diagnosed by a GP | 3 073 | 3 144 | 4 478 | 5 358 |
Number of diagnoses/patient | 2.07 | 2.04 | 2.28 | 2.17 |
Mean age | 45.8 | 46.9 | 36.4 | 35.9 |
Proportion of females | 54.2 | 53.3 | 52.1 | 57.9 |
Mean costs per patient (SEK)* | 3 331 | 3 293 | 2 356 | 2 265 |
Mean ACG weight | 1.0 ** | 1.07 | 1.19 | |