Advanced Access scheduling in general practice and use of primary care: a Danish population-based matched cohort study

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Figure 1. Daytime face-to-face consultations in general practice 1 year before and 1 year after the index date. The vertical line marks the index date. Upper part: mean number of consultations per patient per 3 months with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for patients listed with advanced access scheduling (AAS) practices and reference practices. Lower part: adjusted incident rate ratios (aIRRs) with 95% CIs adjusted for sex, age, vital status, ethnic group, cohabitation status, family income, highest-achieved education level, Charlson Comorbidity Index, calendar time, and month; all measured at the index date.
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Figure 2. Out-of-hours face-to-face and phone consultations 1 year before and 1 year after the index date. The vertical line marks the index date. Upper part: mean number of consultations per patient per 3 months with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for patients listed with advanced access scheduling (AAS) practices and reference practices. Lower part: adjusted incident rate ratios (aIRRs) with 95% CIs adjusted for sex, age, vital status, ethnic group, cohabitation status, family income, highest-achieved education level, Charlson Comorbidity Index, calendar time, and month; all measured at the index date.

Table 1. Characteristics of study population at index date

	Patients in AAS practices, n (%)	Patients in references practices, n (%)
N (%)	161 901 (36.0)	287 837 (64.0)
Clinic size, mean (SD)	4906 (1902.2)	4361 (1606.0)
Mean age, years (SD)	41.52 (23.49)	41.76 (23.54)
Sex
Male	82 671 (51.1)	145 101 (50.4)
Female	79 230 (48.9)	142 736 (49.6)
Education level
≤10 years	46 178 (28.5)	80 727 (28.1)
>10 and ≤15 years	61 117 (37.8)	109 013 (37.9)
>15 years	25 825 (16.0)	46 523 (16.2)
Unknown	28 781 (17.7)	51 575 (17.8)
Cohabitation status
Cohabiting	80 398 (49.7)	142 777 (49.6)
Living alone	34 067 (21.0)	61 032 (21.2)
Children living at home	32 078 (19.8)	57 327 (19.9)
Children not living at home	15 358 (9.5)	26 701 (9.3)
Family income
Low	55 095 (34.0)	93 870 (32.6)
Medium	54 032 (33.4)	95 464 (33.2)
High	52 774 (32.6)	98 503 (34.2)
Ethnic group
Danish	146 473 (90.5)	262 050 (91.0)
Immigrant	12 146 (7.5)	20 485 (7.1)
Descendants of immigrants	3282 (2.0)	5302 (1.9)
Calendar time
January 2011–December 2015	54 282 (33.5)	98 532 (34.2)
January 2016–December 2016	61 822 (38.2)	106 132 (36.9)
January 2017–December 2017	45 797 (28.3)	83 173 (28.9)
Number of chronic conditions
0	127 580 (78.8)	226 628 (78.7)
1–2	27 787 (17.2)	49 416 (17.2)
≥3	6534 (4.0)	11 793 (4.1)

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