The origin corresponds to the average user profile, i.e. a hypothetical user with average number of therapies per category and average category preference (Table 5, column 1).
Cluster B, with 13% of the participants, is characterized by an average number of therapies used with preference towards the categories Alternative medical systems and Treatment centers.
Cluster C, with 18% of participants, is characterized by use of more than the average number of therapies with a preference towards therapies included in the categories Alternative medical systems and Treatment centers.
Among these clusters, Cluster A is the largest, containing 63% of all reports, with 24 of the 38 cases (Table 5, which also shows the average number of therapies in each category).
We find e.g. that Mary, Ellen, and Karolina are similar in that they use close to the average number of therapies (close to zero on the x-axis) but have different preferences for category type.
Patients treated in services with higher average numbers of therapy sessions were more likely to recover than patients treated in services in which fewer sessions were offered.
The average number of physical therapy sessions for the RITH patients was 15.66 (SD = 7.11), whereas the average number of physical therapy sessions in the hospital was 14.74 (SD = 3.22), with no statistical group differences (t = 0.717, P = 0.506).
From the NIVEL Primary Care Database we know that the average number of physical therapy sessions in patients with OA is 17.1 [ 33].
In the first place, a blended intervention will result in lower costs since the average number of physical therapy sessions for patients with OA will decrease.
As a result more catheters were placed in the control group (n=749) than in the intervention group (n=679), despite the average number of intravenous therapy days being less in the control group (t=−2.77, P=0.007; two sided t test): 6.3 (SD 5.1) days in the intervention group and 5.4 (SD 3.8) days in the control group.
