BMC Health Services Research

Table 3 Pearson correlation coefficients between explanatory variables (only significant correlations. p < 0.05)

From: Determinants of the range of drugs prescribed in general practice: a cross-sectional analysis

		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
1	age GP
2	female GP	-0.31
3	single handed		-0.17
4	duo practice			-0.42
5	group practice		0.27	-0.60	-0.47
6	very strong urban			0.24		-0.17
7	strong urban						-0.25
8	moderate urban						-0.21	-0.26
9	little urban			-0.28		0.31	-0.29	-0.36	-0.31
10	not urban							-0.20	-0.17	-0.24
11	deprived urban area		0.28				0.59			-0.21
12	dispensing							-0.19			0.40
13	individual list size		-0.37	0.36		-0.37			0.25			-0.26
14	% > 75 yrs		-0.24			-0.27				-0.18
15	% higher education						0.36	0.20		-0.24	-0.21	0.54	-0.19
16	% sick fund insured															-0.60
17	% non-western		0.20	0.26		-0.18	0.52			-0.23		0.36					0.45
18	postgraduate courses						0.17								0.19
19	part. pharm. meetings
20	written info sources					-0.17								0.17
21	oral info sources				-0.17	0.21	0.20						-0.24
22	visits repres. ind.		-0.21	0.39		-0.34			0.35	-0.28				0.38							0.31
23	use indep. sources									0.24				-0.20						0.19			-0.29
24	use sources ind.			0.22																	0.29		0.41
25	prescriptions per patient						-0.18				0.55		0.43	-0.18	0.29	-0.35	0.24

Back to article page

ISSN: 1472-6963

Contact us

General enquiries: journalsubmissions@springernature.com