Table 3.

Associations with being in the upper third for emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations by the number other patients sharing physicians, the number of other patients seeing the same primary physician, and the number of other patients seeing all of the same physicians

		Relative Odds of one or more outcome		Relative Rates of Repeat outcomes
Predictor	Outcome	OR (95% CI)	P value	RR (95% CI)	P value
Number other patients sharing physicians	ED visits	2.89 (2.21, 3.77)	< 0.001	1.01 (0.85, 1.21)	0.89
Number of other patients seeing the same primary physician		1.04 (0.80, 1.36)	0.78	0.80 (0.68, 0.95)	0.01
Number of other patients seeing all of the same physicians		0.70 (0.53, 0.94)	0.02	0.80 (0.64, 0.99)	0.044
Number other patients sharing physicians	Hospitalizations	2.16 (1.69, 2.77)	< 0.001	1.32 (1.19, 1.47)	< 0.001
Number of other patients seeing the same primary physician		0.91 (0.73, 1.15)	0.43	0.95 (0.86, 1.04)	0.24
Number of other patients seeing all of the same physicians		0.61 (0.48, 0.78)	< 0.001	0.95 (0.85, 1.06)	0.36