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Table 6 Access Survey and Demographic Model

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)

0.9904

0.9811 to 0.9998

0.046

IMD (per unit)

0.9680

0.9351 to 1.0020

0.065

Interaction term:

   

Distance (per km) × IMD (per unit)

1.0009

1.0004 to 1.0013

0.0005

Age65≥ years (per 1%)

1.0228

1.0090 to 1.0367

0.001

Males (per 1%)

1.1379

1.0720 to 1.2078

<0.001

White population (per 1%)

1.0874

1.0400 to 1.1369

<0.001

Interaction term:

   

Males (per 1%) × White pop (per 1%)

0.9983

0.9975 to 0.9992

0.0001

% Able to book with a preferred GP (per 1%)

0.9859

0.9766 to 0.9953

0.004

Interaction term:

   

% Able to book with a preferred GP (per 1%) × IMD (per unit)

1.0004

1.0000 to 1.0008

0.043

QoF clinical points (per 10 points)

0.9987

0.9968 to 1.0107

0.829

  1. Emergency hospital admissions in terms of practice-level Access Survey, QoF and demographic data, derived using the BIC criterion.
  2. BIC (Bayesian information criterion) = 1864.690.