Characteristics of care and support for cancer patients with additional support from a case manager and patients receiving standard GP care.

† Values are numbers (percentages) unless stated otherwise. GP = general practitioner; CM = case manager. Total number of patients is 447. Missing values per variable between 0 and 32.
†† There are 63 patients (Standard GP care 46; Study on case managers 17) with no contacts in the final week, 53 patients (Standard GP care 38; Study on case managers 15) with no contacts in weeks 2 to 4, and 71 patients (Standard GP care 47; Study on case managers 24) with no contacts in months 2 and 3 who are excluded in this variable.
§ Dependent variables coded ‘Standard GP care’ = 0; ‘Study on case managers’ = 1. OR = Odds ratio; CI = 95% confidence interval. Confidence intervals not including the value 1 are considered statistically significant and are boldfaced.
§§ These data are not available for standard GP care from 2011. Study on case managers n = 167 and standard GP care 2012 n = 152.
‡ Logistic regression analysis, adjusted for age
Characteristics of care and support for cancer patients with additional support from a case manager and patients receiving standard GP care.