Table 4.

Annual rates of contact with primary care physicians, out-of-hours service, and hospitals among residents of care home facilities with and without a care home physician, respectively

	With a care home physician	Without a care home physician	p-value *
Person-years	1,037.87	366.73
Primary care physician
Rate of contacts per person-year
Consultations	6.50	5.70	p = 0.37
Home visits	6.21	2.71	p < 0.001
Telephone consultations	5.03	5.67	p = 0.44
E-mail consultations	11.06	17.46	p < 0.001
Preventive contacts	0.89	0.58	p = 0.09
Out-of-hours primary care physician
Rate of contacts per person-year
Face-to-face contacts	0.66	0.82	p = 0.11
Telephone consultations	1.64	1.96	p = 0.12
Hospital
Rate of contacts per person-year
Acute treat-and-release visits (< 12 h)	0.32	0.32	p = 0.87
Short acute admissions (12–48 h)	0.17	0.15	p = 0.54
Long acute admissions (48 + hours)	0.30	0.26	p = 0.56
Planned admissions	0.02	0.04	p = 0.14

* p-values calculated using the Quasi-Poisson model