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Table 4.

Bivariate correlation coefficients with total cost for patients with various chronic conditions and health care need levels^a ¹

Predictor variable	COPD		Hypertension		Angina		CKD		Osteoarthritis		Stroke
RUB category	RUB 4	RUB 5	RUB 4	RUB 5	RUB 4	RUB 5	RUB 4	RUB 5	RUB 4	RUB 5	RUB 4	RUB 5
n	23,360	16,528	64,350	27,752	27,703	18,199	16,729	13,862	58,919	31,251	14,767	14,472
Patient attachment to practice	−0.2011^b	−0.2617^b	−0.1766^b	−0.2734^b	−0.2351^b	−0.3175^b	−0.1980^b	−0.3125^b	−0.1675^b	−0.2664^b	−0.2328^b	−0.3133^b
Patient age category	0.0638^b	0.0205^c	0.0235^b	−0.0121^c	0.0201^b	−0.0073 (NS)	−0.0135 (NS)	−0.0898^b	0.0648^b	0.0589^b	−0.0054 (NS)	−0.0475^b
Patient sex	0.0247^b	0.0027 (NS)	0.0262^b	−0.0076 (NS)	0.0279^b	0.0149^c	0.0152^c	−0.0410^b	0.0164^b	0.0015 (NS)	0.0336^b	0.0017 (NS)
Patient residence area	0.0124 (NS)	−0.0219^c	0.0054 (NS)	−0.0180^c	−0.0138^c	−0.0395^b	0.0057 (NS)	−0.0382^b	0.0041 (NS)	−0.0329^b	−0.0009 (NS)	−0.0386^b
Patient median household income	−0.0117 (NS)	<−0.0001 (NS)	−0.0264^b	−0.0218^b	−0.0295^b	−0.0201^c	−0.0357^b	−0.0357^b	−0.0257^b	−0.0209^b	−0.0211^c	−0.0301^b
Physician sex	0.0207^c	0.0364^b	0.0108^c	0.0224^b	0.0187^c	0.0314^b	−0.0018 (NS)	0.0129 (NS)	0.0081^c	0.0138^c	0.0301^b	0.0310^b
Physician place of graduation	0.0042 (NS)	0.0198^c	0.0154^b	0.0253^b	0.0118^c	0.0154^c	−0.0029 (NS)	0.0230^c	0.0135^b	0.0205^b	0.0122 (NS)	0.0193^c
Physician FTE factor	−0.0479^b	−0.0941^b	−0.0369^b	−0.0767^b	−0.0340^b	−0.0760^b	−0.0135 (NS)	−0.0577^b	−0.0317^b	−0.0706^b	−0.0679^b	−0.1185^b
Physician years in practice	−0.0291^b	−0.0478^b	−0.0191^b	−0.0345^b	−0.0253^b	−0.0488^b	−0.0243^c	−0.0422^b	−0.0235^b	−0.0455^b	−0.0438^b	−0.0679^b
Physician no. of payee numbers	0.0705^b	0.1443^b	0.0476^b	0.1102^b	0.0421^b	0.1168^b	0.0729^b	0.1331^b	0.0551^b	0.1210^b	0.0981^b	0.1722^b

Symbols are presented in place of the observed p values in some columns to make the table more readable, in the neoFisherian framework,² not as indicators of statistical significance of null hypothesis tests that the correlation coefficient equals zero.

p value < 0.001.

p value < 0.05.

^1.

British Columbia Ministry of Health, Primary Care Data Repository, Fiscal Year 2010–2011.

^2.

Hurlbert SH, Lombardi CM. Final collapse of the Neyman-Pearson decision theoretic framework and the rise of the neoFisherian. Ann Zool Fennici 2009 Oct;46(5):311–49. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5735/086.046.0501.

COPD = chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; CKD = chronic kidney disease; FTE = full-time equivalent; NS = not significant (p > 0.05); RUB = Resource Utilization Band.