Comparison of patient-reported indicators in clinic-based practices and hospital-based practices among patients with complex multimorbidity* (N=492)
| PREM | Unadjusted | P value | Adjusted† | P value |
| Mean difference (95% CI) | Mean difference (95% CI) | |||
| JPCAT-SF‡ | ||||
| First contact | −18.77 (−32.47 to −5.07) | 0.007 | −14.93 (−26.06 to −3.80) | 0.009 |
| Longitudinality | 1.77 (−1.81 to 5.34) | 0.333 | 1.07 (−2.60 to 4.73) | 0.568 |
| Coordination | 7.01 (1.34 to 12.69) | 0.016 | 7.00 (1.23 to 12.77) | 0.018 |
| Comprehensiveness (services available) | 0.12 (−6.33 to 6.56) | 0.971 | 0.85 (−5.18 to 6.88) | 0.782 |
| Comprehensiveness (services provided) | 4.71 (−2.17 to 11.59) | 0.181 | 2.77 (−4.05 to 9.59) | 0.427 |
| Community orientation | 3.94 (−0.95 to 8.83) | 0.115 | 4.60 (0.03 to 9.17) | 0.049 |
| PROM | Unadjusted | P value | Adjusted† | P value |
| OR (95% CI) | OR (95% CI) | |||
| Poor or fair self-rated health status | 0.53 (0.36 to 0.77) | 0.001 | 0.51 (0.34 to 0.77) | 0.001 |
*Reference group: hospitals; mixed effects model; random effect on facility.
†Adjusted for age, sex, years of education, annual household income, number of chronic conditions, eye and adnexa, digestive, and respiratory diseases, hospitalisation in past 6 months, and municipality population size.
‡All scores range from 0 to 100.
JPCAT-SF, Japanese version of Primary Care Assessment Tool Short Form; PREM, Patient-Reported Experience Measure; PROM, Patient-Reported Outcome Measure.