Pre-matching baseline characteristics of community-dwelling older patients with diabetes mellitus according to statin use.

<p>VCOG: cognitive status; VIP: Nursing Care Needs; VPIA: pressure sores risk; VADL: activities of daily living; VMOB: mobility; VSOC: social support; MPI: Multidimensional Prognostic Index</p><p>MPI-SVaMA: Multidimensional Prognostic Index based on the Standardized Multidimensional Assessment Schedule for Adults and Aged Persons</p><p>* Number of all medications prescribed within one year before patient’s enrollment</p><p>Pre-matching baseline characteristics of community-dwelling older patients with diabetes mellitus according to statin use.</p

Baseline characteristics of community-dwelling older patients with diabetes mellitus divided according to their Multidimensional Prognostic Index (MPI) grade based on the Standardized Multidimensional Assessment Schedule for Adults and Aged Persons (SVaMA).

<p>VADL: activities of daily living; VCOG: cognitive status; VIP: Nursing Care Needs; VMOB: mobility; VPIA: pressure sores risk; VSOC: social support</p><p>* Number of all medications per month, taken before the patient’s enrollment</p><p>^ ev/py: events/person-years, ir%: incidence rate (number of events per 100 person-years)</p><p>Baseline characteristics of community-dwelling older patients with diabetes mellitus divided according to their Multidimensional Prognostic Index (MPI) grade based on the Standardized Multidimensional Assessment Schedule for Adults and Aged Persons (SVaMA).</p

Study population.

<p>Description of the GPs in the five (A, B, C, D, E) pairs of samples (HS, measured by means of clinical data, and VALORE, measured by means of healthcare administrative data). Description of the general population they have in charge (general population), of diabetic patients (Diabetes), of patients with ischaemic heart disease (IHD) and of patients with heart failure (HF). N GP: number of GPs in the study. N populations: number of inhabitants registered with the GPs in the study. N patients: total number of patients with the chronic disease registered with GPs in the study. N registered per GP: average number of persons in charge to each GP, with test for difference in means within each pair. Female: percentage of women in the population, with test for difference in means within each pair. Age band: age distribution of the population, with chi square test within each pair.</p

Box-plots of the distribution of indicators of quality of care for diabetes (2 indicators), IHD (3 indicators) and HF (3 indicators) in 5 pairs of samples of GPs.

<p>Each pair contains the distribution obtained from the VALORE data (dark gray) and the distribution obtained from HSD data (light gray). For each indicator the pair of samples are ordered according to the median value in the VALORE sample.</p