Physician-estimated disease severity in patients with chronic heart or lung disease: a cross-sectional analysis

Table 3 Association between patient self-rated health and physician-reported disease severity variables

	Patient's Self-Rated Health
Physician-reported disease severity variables	Excellent or Very Good	Good	Fair	Poor
	(n = 148)	(n = 389)	(n = 660)	(n = 459)
	------ percent ------
Disease severity category*
Better than average	38	39	31	24
About average	41	41	40	35
Worse than average	22	20	30	41
Probability of hospitalization in next 2 years *	24	24	27	35
Probability of death in next two years *	13	12	14	19
Patient on disease medications	97	97	98	97
Laboratory tests or procedures done	87	83	85	82
Referred to specialist	53	48	48	54

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