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Table 2 Physician consultations and healthcare resource utilization: physician-reported data

From: Real-world treatment patterns and patient-reported outcomes in episodic and chronic migraine in Japan: analysis of data from the Adelphi migraine disease specific programme

Healthcare resource

Cohort

Total

(n = 977)

p-value

Episodic migraine (n = 923)

Chronic migraine (n = 54)

Doctor specialty, n (%)

   

< 0.001a

 Internist

537 (58.2)

14 (25.9)

551 (56.4)

 

 Neurologist

386 (41.8)

40 (74.1)

426 (43.6)

 

Current consultation was for migraine, n (%)

794 (86.1)

51 (94.4)

845 (86.6)

0.081a

No. of times patient consulted for migraine in the past 12 months – internist, mean (SD)

6.3 (5.4)

4.6 (4.9)

6.2 (5.4)

0.193b

No. of times patient consulted for migraine in the past 12 months – neurologist, mean (SD)

6.1 (4.7)

6.5 (5.7)

6.1 (4.8)

0.576b

No. of patients making hospital visits for migraine in the past 12 months, n (%)

260 (28.2)

17 (31.5)

277 (28.4)

0.603a

Ever had surgical intervention for migraine condition, n (%)

1 (0.1)

0

1 (0.1)

1.000c

  1. Continuous variables are reported as mean (standard deviation [SD]) for non-missing observations; percentages are calculated as proportion of non-missing data
  2. aChi-squared test
  3. bt-test
  4. cFisher’s exact test