Comparing membership of profiles of diabetes-related primary care with membership of profiles of total primary healthcare utilisation
Table 4 shows the cross tabulation between the diabetes-related primary care profiles and total primary healthcare profiles. Low healthcare utilisation for total primary healthcare (profile 1) was associated with a low diabetes-related healthcare utilisation (profile 2), whereas a high total healthcare utilisation (profile 3) did not necessarily imply a high healthcare utilisation profile for diabetes-related primary healthcare. Comparing the two profiles with high diabetes-related primary healthcare utilisation (profile 1 and 3) for diabetes patients with the total primary healthcare profile ‘high utilisation’ showed that diabetes patients in the ‘high utilisation and frequent home visits’ profile (n=386) were more often women and aged 75 year or older, and diabetes patients in the ‘high utilisation, GP and nurse’ (n=297) more often had diabetes related comorbidity (heart disease and stroke) and unrelated comorbidity (lung- and musculoskeletal diseases).