Table 6 |
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| Access Survey and Demographic Model | |||
| Variable | Incidence Rate Ratio (IRR) | 95% CI | P value (2-sided) |
| Distance (per km) | 0.9904 | 0.9811 to 0.9998 | 0.046 |
| IMD (per unit) | 0.9680 | 0.9351 to 1.0020 | 0.065 |
| Interaction term: | |||
| Distance (per km) × IMD (per unit) | 1.0009 | 1.0004 to 1.0013 | 0.0005 |
| Age65≥ years (per 1%) | 1.0228 | 1.0090 to 1.0367 | 0.001 |
| Males (per 1%) | 1.1379 | 1.0720 to 1.2078 | <0.001 |
| White population (per 1%) | 1.0874 | 1.0400 to 1.1369 | <0.001 |
| Interaction term: | |||
| Males (per 1%) × White pop (per 1%) | 0.9983 | 0.9975 to 0.9992 | 0.0001 |
| % Able to book with a preferred GP (per 1%) | 0.9859 | 0.9766 to 0.9953 | 0.004 |
| Interaction term: | |||
| % Able to book with a preferred GP (per 1%) × IMD (per unit) | 1.0004 | 1.0000 to 1.0008 | 0.043 |
| QoF clinical points (per 10 points) | 0.9987 | 0.9968 to 1.0107 | 0.829 |
Emergency hospital admissions in terms of practice-level Access Survey, QoF and demographic data, derived using the BIC criterion.
BIC (Bayesian information criterion) = 1864.690.
Gunther et al. BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:11 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-13-11