Sociodemographic characteristics and disability pensions of frequent attenders in occupational health primary care – a follow-up study in Finland

Table 2 Proportions (%) of disability pension decisions for different FA groups in 2017–2018

	Permanent full-time DP 2017–2018	Permanent partial DP 2017–2018			Fixed-term DP 2017–2018		Fixed-term partial DP 2017–2018
	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n
non-FA (n = 57,673)	0.3	158	0.3	180	0.2	121	0.1	38
1yFA (n = 6519)	1.1	69	1.0	64	1.0	64	0.4	25
2yFA (n = 1602)	1.6	26	1.1	19	1.6	26	0.3	5
pFA (n = 592)	1.9	11	1.5	9	1.9	11	0.8	5

Frequent attendance to OH primary care was defined as the top decile of attenders (frequent attender 10%, FA10)
1yFA = Patients that were in the top decile of attenders in one of the study years (2014, 2015 or 2016)
2yFA = Patients that were in the top decile in any two study years (2014, 2015 or 2016)
pFA = Patients that were in the top decile in all three study years (2014, 2015 and 2016)
non-FA = Patients that were never in the top decile were considered as a reference group, non-frequent attenders

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