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Table 4 Regression results of group size and quality of care

From: Practice size, financial sharing and quality of care

Dependant variable

Access

Comp-ness

Continuity

CDM

Disease prevention

Health promotion

Logarithm (FP)

0.01169**

0.097***

−0.02246***

−0.0198

0.03282*

0.00793

Patient = female

0.01868***

 

0.012622**

−0.07747**

0.1886***

−0.02027**

Patient Age

0.00089***

 

0.001019***

0.00326***

−0.00392***

−0.00107***

Chronic disease

  

0.03396***

 

−0.04204*

0.02832***

Selfhealth > fair

0.0302***

     

% of Female FPs

    

0.08214***

0.06529***

% of Canadian educated FPs

0.0708***

 

0.025236*

 

−0.04379*

 

Years since grad (FPs)

0.0015***

 

0.000883**

  

−0.001955***

Rurality Index

−0.00073***

 

−0.00024*

 

−0.00142***

 

# NP

  

−0.00814***

 

−0.04123***

 

Other HP Exist

 

0.014***

    

other Hospital >10 km

0.0518***

0.115***

−0.013502**

   

EMR

    

0.034216*

 

Model (CHC ref)

      

FFS

−0.0219***

0.036

−0.01108

−0.13955***

−0.16369***

−0.01945*

FHN

0.000344

0.03

−0.01636

−0.14324***

−0.05882

0.003011

HSO

0.0614***

0.009

0.012943

−0.10884**

−0.20511***

−0.003897

Constant

0.5659***

0.476***

0.783532***

0.58627***

0.80894***

0.26988***

R2

 

0.634

    

# cases

3392

84

3392

2640

2640

3392

  1. Comp-ness, Comprehensiveness; NP, Nurse practitioner; *indicates significance at the p < 0.10 level, **indicates significance at the p < 0.05 level, ***indicates significance at the p < 0.01 level.