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Table 6 Outpatient visits five years to one year before, or one year after hospitalisation of patients with a hospital diagnosis of IBS in 2015 in France

From: Healthcare use by 30,000 patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in France: a 5-year retrospective and one-year prospective national observational study

 

Before hospitalisation

After hospitalisation

Years

−5

−4

−3

−2

−1 year

+ 1 year

 

All

All

All

All

All*

18–39

40–59

60–74

75 +

All*

18–39

40–59

60–74

75 +

N

    

29,509

7040

12,081

7883

2505

     
 

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

General practitioner

 0

1.1

1.3

1.6

2.1

3.6

3.3

3.2

3.1

8.6

6.6

7.4

6.2

4.6

12.9

 1–2

1.4

1.8

2.5

4.5

12.3

14.4

13.9

9.1

8.5

15.4

20.0

16.8

11.3

9.0

  ≥ 3

97.4

96.9

95.9

93.4

84.1°

82.4

83.0

87.8

82.9

77.9°

72.7

77.0

84.0

78.2

Gastroenterologist

 0

17.5

18.2

19.2

20.2

21.6

21.9

19.6

20.4

34.2

80.8

77.9

82.6

81.0

79.2

 1–2

67.0

68.9

70.8

72.6

74.3

73.2

77.0

75.3

61.0

16.1

18.5

14.7

15.8

17.2

  ≥ 3

15.5

12.9

10.0

7.2

4.1

4.9

3.4

4.2

4.9

3.1

3.5

2.7

3.2

3.6

Psychiatrist

 0

78.0

80.4

82.9

86.1

90.0

91.2

89.1

90.3

90.1

89.1

89.8

88.0

90.1

89.1

 1–2

9.8

8.8

7.7

6.4

4.9

4.3

4.7

5.1

7.3

5.3

4.9

5.3

5.1

7.5

  ≥ 3

12.3

10.9

9.3

7.5

5.1

4.5

6.2

4.7

2.7

5.6

5.3

6.7

4.8

3.4

All specialists

 0

2.3

2.7

3.4

4.4

6.1

6.5

5.3

5.6

10.6

42.7

40.8

45.2

42.7

36.6

 1–2

26.1

30.3

36.1

43.9

56.5

54.3

58.5

57.2

50.2

29.7

31.2

28.2

29.8

31.7

  ≥ 3

71.6

67.0

60.6

51.7

37.4

39.2

36.2

37.2

39.2

27.6

28.0

26.5

27.5

31.7

  1. *P < 0.0001 for distribution comparisons between “all −1 year” vs “all 1 year”)