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The number and specialties of unique providers seen were measured for the 12 month period following the index HbA1c test.
An analysis at the individual level was not possible for this population, due to infeasibility of precisely ascribing interventions to unique providers.
On average, diabetes patients with comorbid RA saw more total unique providers over the three-year study period (8.8 ± 5.7 versus 6.3 ± 4.0, P <0.01).
Measures of utilization included total number of primary care visits each year and total number of unique providers from 2004 to 2006, as well as ever being hospitalized in 2004 to 2006.
For example, among patients utilizing the same quantity of prescribed opioid drug over the course of a year, those who received prescription opioids from four or more unique providers had twice the annual rate of admission than those who received prescription opioids from only one provider (3.2% v 1.6% admitted in a year).
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With the permission of all participating GPs, pathology laboratories were provided with each GPs unique provider number, specific to their place of practice.
Similarly, datatype specification also applies to all PSSAs, e.g. strings, integers, dates, URLs, or some unique provider-specific service data formats (see Fig. 2).
A unique provider identification number was used to link the NHI provider file, which identifies provider accreditation level.
Provider specialty codes were used to count unique provider totals and distinguish primary care, rheumatology and non-rheumatology specialist visits.
ESRD Network 6 linked patient-level referral data with dialysis facility data by unique provider number using CROWNWeb.
The unit of analysis was an observation which represents a unique woman, but not a unique provider since providers usually cared for multiple women during the observation period.
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