Table 1 Medical priority ranking (absolute and relative) for each chronic condition on the list and its prevalence (categories 1 and 2). 1 was the highest medical priority ranking and 19 the lowest for the absolute ranking, whereas 100% was the highest medical priority for the relative ranking. Chronic condition labels adapted from ICPC-2.

Chronic conditions		Cases in the sample, n	Prevalence, %	Absolute medical priority ranking					Relative medical priority ranking, %
				Median	Quantiles				Median	Quantiles
				Median	High	0.25	0.75	Low	Median	High	0.25	0.75	Low
Highly prevalent chronic conditions	Hypertension uncomplicated	460	51.8	3	1	2	5	15	60	100	80	33	0
	Risk factor cardiovascular	380	42.8	6	1	4	8	14	32	100	56	11	0
	Obesity	283	31.9	5	1	3	7	13	44	100	67	22	0
	Depressive	238	26.8	4	1	2	6	15	52	100	75	25	0
	Osteoarthritis, knee	223	25.1	5	1	3	6	15	50	100	71	25	0
	Atrial fibrillation	210	23.6	2	1	2	3	16	80	100	100	61	0
	Pain, general	205	23.0	5	1	2	8	15	36	100	86	0	0
	Diabetes, non insulin-dependent	204	22.9	2	1	1	4	12	76	100	100	50	0
	Atherosclerosis	167	18.8	5	1	3	8	15	50	100	71	17	0
	Ischaemic heart without angina	164	18.5	2	1	1	4	13	83	100	100	61	0
	Osteoporosis	163	18.4	5	1	3	7	15	43	100	71	20	0
	Hypertension, complicated	159	17.9	4	1	2	6	15	57	100	80	33	0
	Osteoarthritis, hip	153	17.3	5	1	3	7	13	50	100	75	26	0
	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	126	14.2	3	1	1	6	12	71	100	100	37	0
	Neuropathy	112	12.6	5	1	3	7	15	43	100	71	17	0
	Hearing complaint	110	12.4	6	1	4	8	12	25	100	42	13	0
	Cerebrovascular disease	106	11.9	4	1	2	7	13	50	100	88	20	0
	Ischaemic heart with angina	104	11.7	2	1	1	3	11	88	100	100	74	0
	Gout	100	11.2	5	1	4	7	13	33	100	50	17	0
	Diabetes, insulin-dependent	91	10.2	2	1	1	3	10	88	100	100	71	0
	Elevated blood pressure	90	10.1	4	1	3	7	11	40	100	67	20	0
	Asthma	86	9.6	4	1	3	6	14	53	100	72	32	0
	Irritable bowel disease	84	9.4	4	1	3	7	15	39	100	69	20	0
	Tobacco abuse	73	8.2	5	1	3	7	14	29	100	69	9	0
	Rheumatoid arthritis	68	7.6	2	1	1	6	14	82	100	100	31	0
	Incontinence	62	7.0	6	1	4	7	12	40	100	63	17	0
	Chronic alcohol abuse	49	5.6	4	1	2	6	11	58	100	88	25	0
	Prostate neoplasm	49	5.6	4	1	2	6	11	50	100	83	13	0
Slightly prevalent chronic conditions	Macular degeneration	42	4.8	5	1	4	6	15	43	100	66	21	0
	Involuntary movement	41	4.7	5	1	4	7	14	37	100	57	16	0
	Chronic bronchitis	40	4.5	5	1	3	6	12	43	100	75	22	0
	Migraine	38	4.3	5	1	3	7	14	25	100	67	17	0
	Chronic skin ulcer	27	3.1	5	1	3	7	12	50	100	67	21	0
	Memory disturbance	26	3.0	5	1	2	8	16	60	100	80	20	0
	Trauma	26	3.0	4	1	3	7	10	44	100	75	29	0
	Breast female, neoplasm	25	2.8	4	1	2	5	15	57	100	88	38	0
	Colorectal neoplasm	25	2.8	2	1	1	5	9	70	100	100	45	0
	Retinopathy	25	2.8	6	1	5	8	13	32	100	41	27	0
	Bladder neoplasm	22	2.5	3	1	2	6	12	50	100	79	34	0
	Parkinsonism	22	2.5	2	1	1	4	10	80	100	100	50	0
	Personality disorder	22	2.5	2	1	2	5	12	78	100	89	30	0
	Chronic enteritis	21	2.4	7	1	4	9	15	22	100	41	0	0
	Other blood neoplasm	21	2.4	4	1	1	6	11	63	100	100	40	0
	Epilepsy	19	2.2	5	2	4	6	13	43	86	50	20	0
	Phobia, compulsive	19	2.2	4	1	3	7	15	29	100	85	11	0
	Pulmonary heart disease	19	2.2	5	1	3	8	14	63	100	76	26	0
	Somatisation	18	2.0	6	1	3	7	14	52	100	70	14	0
	Dementia	17	1.9	4	1	2	6	8	57	100	89	35	0
	Bowel incontinence	16	1.8	5	1	3	9	11	33	100	71	23	0
	Medication abuse	16	1.8	5	1	3	6	10	64	100	80	16	0
	Multiple sclerosis	13	1.5	1	1	1	1	7	100	100	100	100	29
	Affective psychosis	11	1.2	4	1	2	8	10	69	100	93	27	0
	Blindness	11	1.2	6	1	3	8	12	36	100	80	19	0
	Bronchus lung neoplasm	11	1.2	1	1	1	6	6	100	100	100	62	29
	Deafness	10	1.1	6	3	4	7	10	27	75	58	0	0
	Other malignant neoplasm	10	1.1	5	1	3	8	13	15	100	56	10	0
	Drug abuse	8	0.9	5	1	3	8	11	42	100	82	7	0
	Lymphoma	8	0.9	6	1	3	9	11	33	100	77	16	0
	Anorexia bulimia	7	0.8	5	4	4	7	13	40	73	47	13	0
	Post-traumatic stress	6	0.7	4	4	4	6	10	51	80	63	23	0
	Kidney neoplasm	5	0.6	3	1	1	4	5	78	100	85	72	64
	Pain, face	5	0.6	8	2	2	9	9	36	89	80	0	0
	Psychosis, other	5	0.6	4	1	2	9	12	25	100	90	11	8
	Schizophrenia	5	0.6	1	1	1	3	6	80	100	100	59	55
	Thyroid neoplasm	5	0.6	5	1	2	6	8	53	100	83	25	13
	Poliomyelitis	4	0.5	6	2	3	9	10	57	86	75	31	0
	Cervix neoplasm	3	0.3	3	2	3	6	8	41	82	61	20	0
	Organic psychosis, other	3	0.3	7	4	6	9	11	25	45	35	13	0
	Other digestive neoplasm	3	0.3	4	4	4	7	9	42	73	57	27	11
	AIDS	2	0.2	5	3	4	5	6	44	60	52	36	29
	Pancreas neoplasm	2	0.2	2	1	2	3	3	92	100	96	88	85
	Stomach neoplasm	2	0.2	2	1	2	3	3	75	100	88	63	50
	Trigeminal neuralgia	2	0.2	6	3	5	8	9	46	71	59	33	20
	Mental retardation	1	0.1	1	1	1	1	1	100	100	100	100	100