Cost-Effectiveness of a New Outpatient Pulmonology Care Model Based on Physician-to-Physician Electronic Consultation

Table 1

Clinical-epidemiological characteristics of patients in the preintervention (2019) and the postintervention (2021) year.

	2019	2021
Patients (n)	7,055	3,934
Men (%)	52.1	50.2	0.056
Age (years)	60.3 ± 17.2	60.4 ± 17.2	0.820
Previous history (%)
Heart failure	7.2	6.9	0.541
Atrial fibrillation	9.1	8.7	0.474
Cerebrovascular disease	0.3	0.4	0.344
Pulmonary embolism	1	1.1	0.667
Neoplasm	2.5	2.2	0.352
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	21.9	20.4	0.068
Bronchial asthma	18.9	19.1	0.802
Rhinitis	6.8	6.8	0.986
Obesity	27.9	26.5	0.119
Diabetes mellitus	17.6	16.4	0.107