Table 1 Demographics and characteristics of national MCC calls, DMARD-related versus ROC
Characteristic | All DMARDs (n = 1547) | cDMARDs (n = 1269) | bDMARDs (n = 278) | ROC (n = 121,709) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Gender of the caller (%) | ||||
 Female | 82.4†| 83.8†| 74.9‡ | 76.7 |
 Male | 17.6†| 16.2†| 25.1‡ | 23.1 |
 Missing | – | – | – | 0.2 |
Gender of the patient (%) | ||||
 Female | 78.1†| 80.4†| 65.6†‡ | 68.3 |
 Male | 21.8†| 19.5†| 34.3†‡ | 31.4 |
 Missing | 0.1 | < 0.1 | <  0.1 | 0.3 |
 Age of the patient | 53.63†| 53.62†| 52.74†| 46.82 |
 Mean (± SD) years | (±17.76) | (±17.89) | (±17.44) | (±23.75) |
 Missing (%) | 0.45% | 0.39% | 0.36% | – |
Relationship of the caller (%) | ||||
 Self | 79.0†| 81.2†| 67.8‡ | 71.3 |
 Partner | 7.2†| 6.5†| 10.9†‡ | 1.7 |
 Child | 5.7†| 5.4†| 7.5†‡ | 2.6 |
 Other family or friend | 5.6†| 4.7†| 10.5‡ | 10.2 |
 Other | 2.5 | 2.5 | 3.3†| 1.9 |
ARIA relative call frequency | ||||
 Highly accessible | 1.23 | 1.23 | 1.20 | 1.24 |
 Accessible | 0.50 | 0.50 | 0.55 | 0.46 |
 Moderately accessible | 0.39 | 0.39 | 0.38 | 0.32 |
 Remote | 0.34 | 0.34 | 0.96†‡ | 0.69 |
 Very remote | 0.44 | 0.59 | 0 | 0.73 |
 Missing (% of calls) | 2.5 | 2.4 | 2.9 | 2.7 |