Chiropractic Use in the Medicare Population: Prevalence, Patterns, and Associations with One-Year Changes in Health and Satisfaction with Care

doi:10.1016/j.jmpt.2014.08.003

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J Manipulative Physiol Ther. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2015 Oct 1.

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J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2014 Oct; 37(8): 542–551.

Published online 2014 Sep 16. doi: 10.1016/j.jmpt.2014.08.003

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Table 2

Overall means and means by treatment category.

	Overall Sample	Users of Chiropractic	Medical Only Users

N (person-years)	12,170	4,201	7,969
Age
65–69	0.24	0.28^***	0.22
70–74	0.28	0.29^*	0.27
75–79	0.23	0.23	0.24
80–84	0.16	0.14^***	0.17
85+	0.10	0.07^***	0.11
Sex
Male	0.37	0.42^***	0.35
Race
White	0.91	0.96^***	0.88
African-American	0.05	0.02^***	0.07
Hispanic	0.02	0.004^***	0.03
Other	0.02	0.01^***	0.03
Marital Status
Married	0.57	0.62^***	0.55
Widowed	0.32	0.28^***	0.35
Other marital status	0.10	0.09	0.1
Education
Grade	0.12	0.09^***	0.14
Some high school	0.15	0.14^**	0.16
High school	0.32	0.36^***	0.29
Post-high school	0.41	0.40	0.41
Income
Less than 10K	0.17	0.12^***	0.19
10K to 25K	0.40	0.39	0.40
25K or more	0.42	0.48^***	0.4
Metro area	0.71	0.63^***	0.76
Disease Status
Arthritis	0.67	0.60^***	0.71
Broken hip	0.04	0.02^***	0.04
Cancer	0.18	0.18	0.19
CHD	0.15	0.12^***	0.17
COPD	0.15	0.14^***	0.16
Diabetes	0.18	0.15^***	0.19
Heart attack	0.15	0.12^***	0.16
Hypertension	0.60	0.55^***	0.62
Osteoporosis	0.22	0.17^***	0.25
Psychological problems	0.09	0.07^***	0.10
Rheumatoid arthritis	0.12	0.09^***	0.13
Stroke	0.11	0.08^***	0.12
Function & Mobility limitations
ADLs sum	0.57	0.36^***	0.68
Difficulty with:
bathing	0.10	0.06^***	0.12
getting out of a chair	0.14	0.09^***	0.17
dressing	0.06	0.04^***	0.07
eating	0.02	0.01^**	0.02
walking across a room	0.26	0.18^***	0.31
lifting	1.98	1.65^***	2.15
reaching	1.64	1.49^***	1.71
stooping	2.80	2.55^***	2.93
walking several blocks	2.32	1.93^***	2.53
General health	2.75	2.48^***	2.89
Vision trouble	0.34	0.30^***	0.37
Hearing trouble	0.40	0.40	0.40
Worries more	0.16	0.11^***	0.19
Lifestyle
Obese	0.23	0.24	0.23
Overweight	0.38	0.40^*	0.38
Normal weight	0.34	0.33^**	0.35
Underweight	0.04	0.04	0.05
Ever smoke	0.56	0.56	0.55
Smoke currently	0.09	0.08^**	0.10
Health Services Use
Hospitalization	0.21	0.16^***	0.23
Office Visits
None	0.06	0.09^***	0.05
1 to 5	0.31	0.37^***	0.28
6 +	0.63	0.54^***	0.67
Managed care participation	0.03	0.02^*	0.03
Respondent status
Self T1 and Self T2	0.89	0.92^***	0.88
Self T1 and Proxy T2	0.04	0.02^***	0.04
Proxy T1 and Self T2	0.02	0.03	0.02
Proxy T1 and Proxy T2	0.05	0.03^***	0.05

^*significant at < 0.05 level

^**significant at < 0.01 level

^***significant at < 0.001 level