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Table 3 Dimension 2: Crude and adjusted associations between patient characteristics and patients' evaluation of aspects of the medical care.

From: Patient characteristics associated with differences in patients' evaluation of their general practitioner

  

100% positive assessments 1

0–49% positive assessments 2

  

Prev.(%)

PR

Adj. PR

95% CI

Prev.(%)

PR

Adj. PR

95% CI

Gender

(N = 25377)

Female

61.2

1

13

 

19.4

1

1

 
 

Male

61.2

1.00

0.95

0.93 – 0.97

19.2

0.99

1.06

1.00 – 1.13

Age (years)

(N = 25377)

18–24

47.8

1

13

 

26.2

1

1

 
 

25–29

52.3

1.09

1.07

0.99 – 1.16

23.2

1.03

0.92

0.82 – 1.04

 

30–34

56.8

1.19

1.18

1.10 – 1.26

21.6

1.00

0.84

0.75 – 0.93

 

35–39

56.3

1.18

1.20

1.13 – 1.29

21.8

1.01

0.79

0.71 – 0.88

 

40–44

57.7

1.21

1.29

1.19 – 1.38

20.9

1.00

0.71

0.63 – 0.79

 

45–49

57.5

1.20

1.31

1.22 – 1.41

21.9

0.90

0.70

0.62 – 0.78

 

50–54

61.1

1.28

1.44

1.33 – 1.55

19.0

0.88

0.57

0.50 – 0.65

 

55–59

64.5

1.35

1.55

1.43 – 1.66

17.9

0.74

0.52

0.46 – 0.60

 

60–64

67.1

1.40

1.61

1.50 – 1.73

15.6

0.67

0.45

0.40 – 0.52

 

65–69

73.0

1.53

1.76

1.64 – 1.88

13.1

0.58

0.38

0.33 – 0.45

 

70–74

71.4

1.49

1.73

1.61 – 1.86

14.9

0.53

0.43

0.38 – 0.50

 

75–79

70.1

1.47

1.73

1.61 – 1.85

14.8

0.51

0.42

0.36 – 0.48

 

80+

69.8

1.46

1.73

1.60 – 1.87

15.6

0.57

0.42

0.36 – 0.50

Further education (years)

(N = 24220)

None

60.2

1

13

 

19.6

1

1

 
 

Less than 2

60.4

1.01

1.03

0.99 – 1.07

20.8

1.06

1.04

0.94 – 1.16

 

2–4

61.5

0.91

1.02

0.99 – 1.05

19.1

0.97

1.02

0.95 – 1.10

 

5 or more

61.2

0.80

1.00

0.97 – 1.04

18.8

0.96

1.03

0.93 – 1.14

 

Undergoing education or other

61.4

0.90

1.07

1.02 – 1.12

17.3

0.88

0.85

0.74 – 0.97

Frequency of attendance (times per year)

(N = 25377)

0–1

64.2

1

13

 

19.0

1

1

 
 

2–3

60.9

0.95

0.98

0.95 – 1.01

19.2

1.01

0.96

0.88 – 1.05

 

4–5

61.9

0.96

1.01

0.98 – 1.05

19.3

1.02

0.92

0.84 – 1.01

 

6–7

60.0

0.94

1.01

0.98 – 1.06

19.3

1.02

0.85

0.77 – 0.94

 

8–9

60.6

0.94

1.04

1.00 – 1.09

19.5

1.03

0.82

0.73 – 0.92

 

10+

60.1

0.94

1.09

1.04 – 1.14

19.8

1.04

0.74

0.67 – 0.83

Duration of listing (years)

(N = 16880)

Less than 1

60.5

1

13

 

20.3

1

1

 
 

1–2

62.7

1.04

1.01

0.96 – 1.07

18.4

0.91

0.99

0.86 – 1.12

 

3–7

61.2

1.01

0.96

0.91 – 1.01

19.0

0.93

1.05

0.93 – 1.18

 

8–12

62.4

1.03

0.96

0.90 – 1.01

19.1

0.94

1.11

0.98 – 1.27

 

13+

65.8

1.09

1.00

0.94 – 1.06

16.0

0.79

0.94

0.83 – 1.08

Self-rated health

(N = 25377)

Excellent

71.8

1

13

 

13.4

1

1

 
 

Very good

64.8

0.90

0.86

0.83 – 0.89

15.7

1.17

1.27

1.14 – 1.43

 

Good

61.1

0.85

0.72

0.70 – 0.75

19.2

1.43

1.90

1.69 – 2.13

 

Fair

52.4

0.73

0.59

0.56 – 0.61

26.5

1.97

2.94

2.60 – 3.31

 

Poor

48.2

0.67

0.53

0.49 – 0.58

30.2

2.25

3.43

2.96 – 3.97

Chronic condition

(N = 25017)

No

64.6

1

13

 

18.6

1

1

 
 

Yes-KRTC

67.9

1.10

1.09

1.06 – 1.12

15.9

0.86

0.84

0.77 – 0.92

 

Yes-other or multiple

57.1

0.93

1.01

0.98 – 1.04

22.2

1.19

0.96

0.90 – 1.02

Chronic condition

(N = 17058)

 

61.6

1

13

 

18.6

1

1

 
 

K – Cardiovascular

70.6

1.15

1.12

1.08 – 1.16

13.7

0.73

0.76

0.67 – 0.87

 

R – Respiratory

60.6

0.98

1.05

0.99 – 1.10

19.4

1.04

0.90

0.79 – 1.04

 

T – Endocrine

68.2

1.11

1.11

1.06 – 1.16

17.9

0.96

0.94

0.81 – 1.08

 

C – Cancer

75.2

1.22

1.28

1.19 – 1.37

11.7

0.63

0.55

0.39 – 0.77

  1. Prevalence ratio (PR) for 100% positive assessments and for 0–49% positive assessments associated with different patient characteristics. Crude PRs are adjusted for clustering of patients. Adjusted PRs are adjusted for patients' gender, age, frequency of attending a GP, self -rated health and clustering of frequency patients. Numbers in italics are used to indicate statistical significance.
  2. 1 Patients who marked 100% of the answered questions in one of the two most positive answering categories.
  3. 2 Patients who marked less than 50% (0–49%) of the answered questions in one of the two most positive answering categories.
  4. 3 Poisson regression with robust variance
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