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Table 3 Category of Read codes used to record knee problems for patient presentations when stratified by age group, sex and socio-economic deprivation, n (%)

From: Consultation patterns of children and adolescents with knee pain in UK general practice: analysis of medical records

  

Symptom

Diagnosis

Row total, n (%)

Trauma

Non-trauma

Age*

3 to 7 years, n (%)

28 (77.8)

8 (22.2)

36 (11.0)

  

8 (22.2)

0 (0)

 

8 to 11 years, n (%)

35 (71.4)

14 (28.6)

49 (15.0)

  

12 (24.5)

2 (4.1)

 

12 to 15 years, n (%)

91 (65.5)

48 (34.5)

139 (42.5)

  

42 (30.2)

6 (4.3)

 

16 to 19 years, n (%)

64 (62.1)

39 (37.9)

103 (31.5)

  

35 (34.0)

4 (3.9)

 
 

Column total, n (%)

218 (66.7)

109 (33.3)

327 (100)

   

97 (29.7)

12 (3.7)

 

Sex†

     

Boy, n (%)

125 (64.8)

68 (35.2)

193 (59.0)

  

61 (31.6)

7 (3.6)

 

Girl, n (%)

93 (69.4)

41 (30.6)

134 (41.0)

  

36 (26.9)

5 (3.7)

 
 

Column total, n (%)

218 (66.7)

109 (33.3)

327 (100)

   

97 (29.7)

12 (3.7)

 

Area of socio-economic deprivation‡

Low, n (%)

59 (73.8)

21 (26.3)

80 (25.5)

  

18 (22.5)

3 (3.8)

 

Medium, n (%)

125 (69.1)

56 (30.9)

181 (57.6)

  

50 (27.6)

6 (3.3)

 

High, n (%)

25 (47.2)

28 (52.8)

53 (16.9)

  

25 (47.2)

3 (5.7)

 

Missing, n (%)

9 (69.2)

4 (30.8)

13 (4.0)

  

4 (30.8)

0

 
 

Column total, n (%)

209 (66.6)

105 (33.4)

314 (100)

   

93 (29.6)

12 (3.8)

 
  1. Patient presentations: Number of patients who consulted on at least one occasion in 2010, n = 327
  2. Bolded numbers = cells with significant adjusted standardized residuals greater than +1.96 (observed frequency is more than the expected frequency)
  3. NB: Chi Square tests were applied to test for differences between the stratified groups by symptom or diagnosis (no analysis was carried out on the sub-category of trauma / non-trauma as cell numbers were considered too low, n < 5). Data for diagnosis: non-trauma are presented for reader interest
  4. * X 2 = 3.541, df = 3, p = 0.315
  5. † X 2 = 0.765, df = 1, p = 0.382
  6. ‡ X 2 = 11.32, df = 2, p = 0.003