Do list size and remuneration affect GPs' decisions about how they provide consultations?

van den Berg, Michael J; de Bakker, Dinny H; Westert, Gert P; van der Zee, Jouke; Groenewegen, Peter P

doi:10.1186/1472-6963-9-39

BMC Health Services Research

Table 5 Regression of remuneration, list size and other practice, GP, and patient characteristics on consultation length, waiting time to get an appointment, and home visit (yes/no) controlled for practice, GP and patient characteristics.

From: Do list size and remuneration affect GPs' decisions about how they provide consultations?

	Consultation length			Waiting time to get an appointment (0 through 3)			Home visit no (0)/yes (1)
	1a	1b	1c	2a	2b	2c	3a	3b	3c
	All	Small list	Large list	All	Small list	Large list	All	Small list	Large list
	B	B	B	B	B	B	Exp-B	Exp-B	Exp-B
intercept	11.794	13.597	6.196	0.904	1.789	-0.045	0.002	0.004	0.002
Practice characteristics
Proportion of publicly insured (capitation share)	0.034	0.057	-0.014	0.000	0.012	-0.015	1.007	0.998	1.017*
Proportion of self-rated health low	-0.192**	-0.204*	-0.097	0.022	-0.009	0.066**	0.994	0.978	0.986
Urbanisation (ref = urban)
Suburban	-0.970	-1.649*	0.242	0.011	-0.096	0.305	1.168	0.655	1.282
Rural	-1.957**	-1.957*	-0.411	-0.019	-0.547*	0.676**	1.405	1.332	1.21
Practice type (ref = solo)
Dual	-0.248	2.038*	-1.308*	0.066	-0.017	-0.096	1.097	0.723	1.038
Group	-0.071	1.512	-0.338	0.289	0.077	0.141	0.777	0.412**	1.261
GP-characteristics
Age	0.020	-0.034	0.084*	-0.005	-0.003	-0.006	1.002	0.992	1.007
Sex (female)	0.157	-0.651	1.306	0.002	0.053	-0.157	0.963	1.368	0.416**
Weighted list size	-1.014*	-1.346	-2.663*	0.065	-0.046	0.218	0.967	0.842	0.724
Weighted list size * proportion of publicly insured	0.002	0.057	0.036	-0.004	-0.041*	0.012	1.008	0.874**	0.966
Patient characteristics
Insurance status (1 = public)	-0.465	-0.451	-0.451				0.999	1.094	0.949
Age	0.032**	0.031**	0.033**				1.061**	1.066**	1.059**
Self-rated health low	1.065**	1.084**	1.077**				1.570**	1.423**	1.660**
Sex (female)	0.327	0.537	0.132				1.300**	1.302*	1.230**
Weighted list size * public insurance	0.400	1.263	1.283				0.900	1.132	0.975
Variance components
Variance practice level	0.943	0.000	1.884	0.176	0.151	0.086	0.086	0.004	0.000
Variance GP level	1.048	1.280	0.000	0.209	0.218	0.207	0.102	0.090	0.116
Variance patient level	18.225	18.982	17.297				2.130	2.390	2.130
N	1,967	996	971	184	92	92	67,709	22,430	45,279

* p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01
Overall, smaller and larger practices (multilevel regression analysis and logistic regression analysis).

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