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. 2007 Apr 3;7:46. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-7-46

Table 6.

Dimension 4: Crude and adjusted associations between patients' evaluation of aspects of the organisation of care.

Most positive assessments* Poor assessments

Prev(%) Crude PR§ Pt-adj. PR|| Adj. PR Adj. 95%CI** Prev(%) Crude PR§ Pt-adj. PR|| Adj. PR Adj. 95%CI**
Gender
(N = 365) Female 63.8 1 1†† 1†† 23.8 1 1 1
Male 66,6 1,04 1,00 1,00 0,97; 1,04 21,4 0,90 0,99 1,00 0,91; 1,10
Goodness of fit (p) 1.00 0.17
Age (years)
(N = 365) -39 71.2 1 1†† 1†† 16.8 1 1 1
40–49 65,5 0,92 0,92 0,91 0,85; 0,97 22,5 1,34 1,35 1,40 1,10; 1,78
50–59 65,1 0,91 0,90 0,88 0,83; 0,94 22,6 1,34 1,39 1,48 1,16; 1,87
60 + 66,1 0,93 0,88 0,88 0,81; 0,97 22,8 1,36 1,50 1,54 1,14; 2,09
Goodness of fit (p) 1.00 0.17
Seniority‡‡ (years)
(N = 255) 0–2 70.0 1 1†† 1†† 21.0 1 1 1
3–5 66,4 0,95 0,95 0,95 0,88; 1,03 22,1 1,05 1,05 1,02 0,79; 1,31
6–10 67,0 0,96 0,94 0,95 0,87; 1,03 21,5 1,03 1,06 1,04 0,79; 1,35
11–20 67,3 0,96 0,95 0,98 0,90; 1,07 20,5 0,98 1,00 0,90 0,70; 1,17
21 + 68,2 0,97 0,94 0,98 0,89; 1,07 19,7 0,94 1,01 0,87 0,67; 1,14
Goodness of fit (p) 1.00 0.07
Working hours/week
(N = 360) -21 57.7 1 1†† 1†† 28.8 1 1 1
22–37 63,4 1,10 1,11 1,11 0,98; 1,26 24,4 0,85 0,82 0,85 0,68; 1,05
38–44 65,8 1,14 1,14 1,16 1,02; 1,32 22,3 0,78 0,77 0,77 0,61; 0,97
45 + 69,1 1,20 1,19 1,22 1,07; 1,39 18,7 0,65 0,65 0,65 0,51; 0,83
Goodness of fit (p) 1.00 0.17
Urbanity
(N = 361) Urban 64.1 1 1†† 1†† 23.6 1 1 1
Rural 66,1 1,03 1,00 1,00 0,95; 1,05 21,6 0,92 0,97 0,97 0,85; 1,11
Urban/rural 68,0 1,06 1,04 1,03 0,99; 1,07 20,5 0,87 0,90 0,91 0,83; 1,01
Goodness of fit (p) 1.00 0.16
List size (patients/GP)
(N = 360) -1000 63.9 1 1†† 1†† 24.4 1 1 1
1001–1600 65,9 1,03 1,02 0,99 0,91; 1,07 22,5 0,92 0,93 1,01 0,84; 1,20
1601–2000 65,9 1,03 1,04 1,00 0,92; 1,09 20,8 0,85 0,84 0,93 0,76; 1,14
2000 + 66,4 1,04 1,04 0,99 0,89; 1,10 21,6 0,89 0,88 0,98 0,74; 1,30
Goodness of fit (p) 1.00 0.06
Practice organisation§§
(N = 364) Single 66.8 1 1†† 1†† 20.3 1 1 1
Shared single 64,6 0,97 0,99 1,07 0,96; 1,20 23,5 1,16 1,11 0,91 0,71; 1,17
Group of singles 62,3 0,93 0,96 1,01 0,95; 1,08 25,3 1,25 1,17 1,02 0,84; 1,22
Partnership 65,2 0,98 0,99 1,01 0,97; 1,05 22,9 1,13 1,09 1,03 0,91; 1,18
Part-time partnership 67,0 1,00 1,01 1,06 1,01; 1,12 21,6 1,07 1,03 0,92 0,78; 1,08
Goodness of fit (p) 1.00 0.17
Staff (employees/GP)||||
(N = 358) 0–0.5 63.8 1 1†† 1†† 23.9 1 1 1
0.51–0.86 65,3 1,02 1,02 1,01 0,96; 1,06 22,6 0,94 0,96 0,98 0,86; 1,11
0.87–1 66,5 1,04 1,02 1,01 0,96; 1,06 21,4 0,89 0,93 0,98 0,85; 1,12
1.01–1.49 66,5 1,04 1,03 1,02 0,96; 1,09 21,3 0,89 0,90 0,94 0,79; 1,12
1.5 + 68,7 1,08 1,06 1,05 0,98; 1,13 20,2 0,84 0,86 0,94 0,77; 1,15
Goodness of fit (p) 1.00 0.17
Teaching out of practice
(N = 359) No 65.9 1 1 1†† 22.0 1 1 1
Yes 64,5 0,98 0,98 0,98 0,94; 1,01 23,2 1,00 1,06 1,06 0,96; 1,17
Goodness of fit (p) 1.00 0.19
Training practice
(N = 358) No 66.2 1 1†† 1†† 21.6 1 1 1
Yes 65.3 0,99 0,99 0,98 0,94; 1,01 22.6 1,05 1,04 1,06 0,95; 1,17
Goodness of fit (p) 1.00 0.31

Prevalence ratio (PR) for 100% positive assessments and for 0–49% positive assessments associated with different patient characteristics. Crude PRs are adjusted for patient clustering. Patient-adjusted PRs are adjusted for patients' gender, age, frequency of attending a general practitioner (GP) and self-rated health and patient clustering. Fully adjusted PRs are adjusted for GPs' gender, age, weekly working hours, organisation of practice and staff in addition to patients' gender, age, frequency of attending a GP, self-rated health and patient clustering. The goodness of model fitting is shown regarding the fully adjusted PRs (p-values).

* Patients who marked 100% of the answered questions in one of the two most positive answering categories.

Patients who marked less than 50% (0–49%) of the answered questions in one of the two most positive answering categories.

Prevalence

§ Crude prevalence ratio is the unadjusted prevalence ratio adjusted for patient clustering

|| Patient-adjusted prevalence ratio is the prevalence ratio adjusted for patients' gender, age, frequency of attending a GP and self-rated health and patient clustering.

Fully adjusted prevalence ratio is the prevalence ratio adjusted for GPs' gender, age, weekly working hours, organisation of practice and staff in addition to patients' gender, age, frequency of attending a GP, self-rated health and patient clustering.

** 95% confidence interval for the fully adjusted prevalence ratio.

†† Poisson regression with robust variance

‡‡ Seniority in present practice

§§ "Single" = single-haned, "Shared single" = two ore more GPs sharing a single-handed practice, "Group of singles" = single-handed GPs sharing premises and staff, "Partnership" = GPs sharing patient-list, premises and staff, "Part-time partnership" = partnership practices with all GPs working part-time

|||| Number converted to full-time working employees