From: Performance of quantitative measures of multimorbidity: a population-based retrospective analysis
No. (%) | All-cause death | Hospitalization | Non-scheduled hospitalization | Primary care visits | ER utilization | Medication use | Admission to skilled nursing facility | Expenditure | |
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Gender | |||||||||
Male | 3,022,978 (48.6) | 1.09 | 8.17 | 4.09 | 4.53 | 3.63 | 4.15 | 0.79 | 6.13 |
Female | 3,201,338 (51.4) | 1.04 | 9.70 | 4.80 | 5.93 | 4.73 | 6.35 | 1.00 | 5.70 |
Age group | |||||||||
18–44 | 2,654,178 (42.6) | 0.05 | 4.94 | 2.70 | 1.33 | 3.89 | 0.57 | 0.02 | 1.92 |
45–64 | 2,097,515 (33.7) | 0.34 | 6.92 | 2.56 | 3.26 | 2.88 | 3.13 | 0.22 | 5.00 |
65–74 | 729,565 (11.7) | 1.19 | 14.61 | 5.80 | 8.50 | 4.68 | 11.48 | 1.07 | 10.56 |
75–84 | 476,422 (7.7) | 3.64 | 22.49 | 11.89 | 19.19 | 7.84 | 21.32 | 3.82 | 17.28 |
> 84 | 266,636 (4.3) | 11.90 | 25.34 | 19.89 | 26.17 | 9.73 | 23.50 | 9.27 | 19.64 |
Socioeconomic status1 | |||||||||
High | 59,250 (1.0) | 0.54 | 3.31 | 1.55 | 0.96 | 0.93 | 1.66 | 0.12 | 2.62 |
Moderate | 1,988,779 (32) | 0.65 | 7.01 | 3.05 | 3.10 | 2.50 | 3.30 | 0.42 | 4.21 |
Low | 3,948,857 (63.4) | 1.27 | 9.87 | 5.10 | 6.23 | 4.85 | 6.08 | 1.13 | 6.55 |
Very low | 227,430 (3.7) | 1.16 | 11.66 | 6.36 | 8.09 | 8.43 | 9.58 | 1.18 | 10.38 |