Delegation of GP-home visits to qualified practice assistants: assessment of economic effects in an ambulatory healthcare centre

Table 3 Results of the comparison of the different types of home visits before and during the AGnES-project in the Federal State of Brandenburg

	Total number of home visits (GPs and AGnES-practice assistants)	Total number of GP-home visits	Number of usual GP-home visits	Number of medically urgent GP-home visits
ambulatory healthcare centre, all statutory insured patients
Z	-1.529	2.208	1.698	2.208
p	0.126	0.027	0.089	0.027
ambulatory healthcare center, AOK-patients
Z	0.170	1.868	1.698	2.378
p	0.865	0.062	0.089	0.017
county Oberspreewald-Lausitz, AOK-patients
Z	-*	0.679	0.170	1.019
p	-*	0.497	0.865	0.308

Z: normally distributed z-value related to the calculated test statistic of the Wilcoxon rank-sum test
p: probability of error
* Since there were no AGnES-practice assistants in the surrounding county Oberspreewald-Lausitz, the comparison was only conducted for the GP-home visits.

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