Use of primary health care services among children and adolescents with cerebral palsy.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To investigate the use of general practitioners and urgent care centres (UCC) among children and adolescents with cerebral palsy (CP) compared to a control group, and per gross motor function level.

Method

Data on children with CP born 1996 to 2014 were collected from the Norwegian Quality and Surveillance Registry for Cerebral Palsy. A control group was extracted from Statistics Norway. The date and diagnosis codes for general practitioner and UCC contacts from 2006 to 2015 were collected from the Norwegian Control and Payment of Health Reimbursement Database. Incidence rate ratios (IRR) for the number of contacts per person-year with 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated using Poisson regression. Risk differences with 95% CI were used to compare cumulative diag

SUBMITTER: Johansen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11579826 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature