Distance and utilisation of out-of-hours services in a Norwegian urban/rural district: an ecological study

Table 1 Multiple linear regression on rate of all contacts by distance

	Coefficient (β)	95% CI for β	Standardised β	p
Constant	5.571
Distance (km)	-0.010	-0.011 to -0.009	-1.052	< 0.001
Age > 80 years (%)	0.032	-0.001 to 0.065	0.086	0.059
Income inequality (Gini)	-0.749	-1.017 to 0.351	-0.046	0.32
Median gross income	0.098	-0.004 to 0.007	0.044	0.19
Primary school only	0.003	-0.004 to 0.011	0.032	0.40
Primary care doctors per 10 000	0.001	-0.004 to 0.007	0.021	0.61

Multiple linear regression with rates as the dependent variable. All contacts with Arendal out-of-hours service (ln transformed). R ² = 0.96 for model, p < 0.001.

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