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Table 5 Relationship between nurse to GP ratios and number of patients experiencing one or more admissions (rate per no. of patients on the register)

From: Hospital admissions for asthma, diabetes and COPD: is there an association with practice nurse staffing? A cross sectional study using routinely collected data

	Asthma		COPD		Diabetes
Characteristic	β	SE(β)	β	SE(β)	β	SE(β)
List size per FTE GP and PN	0.0090	0.0056	0.0057	0.0043	-0.0056	0.0073
PN to GP Ratio
No Practice nurse	0.0000		0.0000		0.0000
1st .09 to .32	-0.0831^b	0.0312	-0.0066	0.0264	0.0880^a	0.0426
2nd .32 to .42	-0.0995^b	0.0311	-0.0300	0.0265	0.0829	0.0426
3rd .42 to .53	-0.0994^b	0.0313	-0.0437	0.0265	0.0445	0.0429
4th .53 to .70	-0.1062^c	0.0311	-0.0811^b	0.0265	0.0995^a	0.0427
5th .70 and over	-0.1340^c	0.0314	-0.0624^a	0.0266	0.1002^a	0.0429
χ² 5df	22.12	p < .001	52.07	p < .001	16.53	p = .005

df: degrees of freedom. ^a p < .05;^b p < .01; ^c p < .001 (other model parameters estimated as per table 2, not reported)

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