Table 2.

Patient population characteristics of practices in 7 categories for use of hospital services

Category		1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Percentage of admissions that were emergency		<36%	36-40%	41-45%	46-50%	51-55%	56-60%	>60%
n	229	22	51	60	35	30	18	13	beta	p
Proportion of Patients aged ≥ 65	0.147 (0.140-0.153)	0.160 (0.144-0.175)	0.161 (0.153-0.170)	0.166 (0.157-0.176)	0.142 (0.125-0.160)	0.129 (0.110-0.147)	0.110 (0.095-0.125)	0.081 (0.042-0.120)	−0.860	<0.001
Proportion of male Patients	0.509 (0.505-0.514)	0.501 (0.497-0.505)	0.503 (0.499-0.507)	0.500 (0.497-0.504)	0.510 (0.502-0.518)	0.510 (0.503-0.518)	0.523 (0.506-0.541)	0.565 (0.500-0.630)	1.242	<0.001
White Ethnicity Proportion	0.801 (0.770-0.832)	0.951 (0.938-0.963)	0.918 (0.897-0.938)	0.890 (0.870-0.910)	0.728 (0.636-0.820)	0.598 (0.480-0.717)	0.544 (0.392-0.697)	0.664 (0.475-0.852)	−0.185	<0.001
Index of Multiple Deprivation	19.87 (18.48-21.26)	11.96 (9.68-14.23)	14.91 (13.09-16.73)	14.64 (12.98-16.30)	20.32 (17.35-23.29)	27.86 (24.66-31.07)	35.52 (31.08-39.96)	34.34 (29.96-40.73)	0.006	<0.001
Coronary Heart Disease Expected Prevalence Proportion	0.043 (0.041-0.044)	0.041 (0.037-0.045)	0.043 (0.041-0.045)	0.043 (0.042-0.046)	0.042 (0.038-0.047)	0.044 (0.040-0.048)	0.044 (0.039-0.049)	0.035 (0.022-0.047)	−0.382	0.493
Hypertension Expected Prevalence Proportion	0.238 (0.234-0.243)	0.245 (0.232-0.258)	0.250 (0.244-0.256)	0.249 (0.243-0.256)	0.234 (0.217-0.251)	0.226 (0.211-0.241)	0.214 (0.202-0.226)	0.198 (0.160-0.235)	−0.811	<0.001
Stroke Expected Prevalence	0.019 (0.018-0.019)	0.018 (0.017-0.020)	0.019 (0.018-0.020)	0.020 (0.019-0.020)	0.018 (0.016-0.020)	0.018 (0.016-0.020)	0.018 (0.016-0.020)	0.015 (0.011-0.020)	−3.123	0.015

Means (95% CIs) N = 229.