Need for knee replacement and use of health services by rurality
| Rurality (tertiles from Cloke’s index) | Had knee replaced (total population) | Need knee replacing (among population with no comorbidity) | Use of services by those in need (after exclusion of comorbidity) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under GP care | Under hospital care | On waiting list | Knee replaced | |||
| Values are per cent (95% confidence interval). | ||||||
| GP, general practitioner. | ||||||
| Low | 3 (3 to 4) | 9 (8 to 11) | 76 (69 to 82) | 39 (32 to 47) | 12 (7 to 18) | 6 (3 to 11) |
| Middle | 2 (2 to 3) | 8 (6 to 9) | 76 (69 to 83) | 31 (23 to 40) | 13 (8 to 20) | 7 (3 to 12) |
| High | 3 (2 to 4) | 7 (6 to 8) | 66 (58 to 73) | 34 (26 to 42) | 11 (6 to 17) | 6 (3 to 11) |