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Table 3 Demographic Model - Emergency hospital admissions in terms of practice-level demographic data, derived using the BIC criterion

From: What aspects of primary care predict emergency admission rates? A cross sectional study

Variable

Incidence Rate Ratio (IRR)

95% CI

P value (2-sided)

Distance (per km)

0.9874

0.9762 to 0.9987

0.028

IMD (per unit)

1.0014

0.9971 to 1.0057

0.519

Interaction term:

   

Distance (per km) × IMD (per unit)

1.0009

1.0004 to 1.0014

0.001

Age65≥ years (per 1%)

1.0224

1.0095 to 1.0355

0.001

Males (per 1%)

1.1535

1.0899 to 1.2209

<0.001

White population (per 1%)

1.0990

1.0520 to 1.1481

<0.001

Interaction term:

   

Males (per 1%) × White pop (per 1%)

0.9981

0.9973 to 0.9989

<0.001

  1. BIC (Bayesian information criterion) = 1865.306.
  2. IRR less than 1.0 represent decreases and IRR greater than 1.0 represent increases in the count.