CHARACTERISTICS OF UTILIZATION OF PRIMARY CARE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS IN COUNTY BARANYA IN HUNGARY

Author(s)

Andor Sebestyen, MD, MBA, PhD, Deputy Director1, Sándor Lipp, MSc, Division Head1, Ildikó Kriszbacher, MSc, PhD, Associate Professor2, József Betlehem, BSc, MSc, PhD, Vice-Dean2, Zsolt Kiss, MSc, Department Head3, Attila Molnár, MSc, Deputy Department Head3, László Kõrösi, MD, Deputy Department Head3, Imre Boncz, MD, MSc, Ph, Associate Professor and Department Head21National Health Insurance Fund Administration, Pecs, Hungary; 2 University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary; 3 National Health Insurance Fund Administration, Budapest, Hungary

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study is to analyze the attendance of insurants registered with general practitioners (GP) in county Baranya during the one year existence of visit fee. METHODS: The analysis is based on the monthly reports (B300 form) from general practitioners. The study covered the period between March 2007 and February 2008. The analysis shows the attendance of insurants registered with any GP in county Baranya. The number of registered patients is as of February 2008. RESULTS: The number of insurants registered with GPs in county Baranya was 387,441 persons, who had 2,458,765 attendances during one year in any of the 298 GP praxis. The average number of attendance is 6.3 per insurant, which are stratified according to the followings: Sex: males 5.5, women 6.8; Age-groups: 0-1y:14.8, 2-7y:10, 8-14y:5.6, 15-19y:4.9, 20-29y:2.8, 30-39y:3.1, 40-49y:4.7, 50-59y:7, 60-69y:8.5, 70-79y:10.8, 80y-:11.5 Number of settlements: 1 settlement 6, 2 settlements 6.6, 3 settlements 6.9, 4 settlements 7, 5 settlements 6.6; Number of GP office: 1 office 5.9, 2 offices 6.4, 3 offices 7.1, 4 offices 6.8, 5 offices 6.8; Type of settlement: city 6.1, village 6.6; Total number of attendances on week-days: - On monthly base: January 11,519, February 10,729, March 10,335, April 9,655, May 9,703, June 8,779, July 7,661, August 7,638, September 9,310, October 9,294, November 10,492, December 9,590 persons; - According to week-days: Monday 11,457, Tuesday 10,291, Wednesday 9,931, Thursday 9,617, Friday 8,631, Saturday (if workday) 5,645 persons. CONCLUSIONS: The utilization of GPs praxis is the highest on the first workday on the week, in winter months, in younger age-groups (0-1 year) and for women. As the number of settlements and offices increases, the attendance slightly increased also, in harmony with the higher utilization in villages. In the background we can assume the closer the GP the higher the utilization.

Conference/Value in Health Info

2008-11, ISPOR Europe 2008, Athens, Greece

Value in Health, Vol. 11, No. 6 (November 2008)

Code

PHP23

Topic

Health Policy & Regulatory

Topic Subcategory

Health Disparities & Equity

Disease

Multiple Diseases

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