Table 2.
Associations between year/neighbourhood SES and number of contacts with an out-of-hours PCS/1000 inhabitants per year (total; high/low urgency; night/evening, weekend, holiday; home visits/consultations/telephone consultations) (unstandardised coefficients)
| Total contacts | High-urgency contacts | Low-urgency contacts | Contacts during night time | Contacts evening, weekend, holidays | Home visits | Consultations | Telephone consultations | |
| B (95% CI)* | B (95% CI)* | B (95% CI)* | B (95% CI)* | B (95% CI)* | B (95% CI)* | B (95% CI)* | B (95% CI)* | |
| Fixed effect | ||||||||
| Constant† | 95.6 (21.7 to 170.0) | 36.2 (−4.7 to 3.3) | 58.9 (24.0 to 93.7) | 12.2 (2.6 to 21.7) | 83.7 (16.7 to 150.3) | 6.4 (−3.2 to 1.1) | 47.8 (4.7 to 90.9) | 41.0 (11.4 to 70.6) |
| Year 2013 | Ref | Ref | Ref | Ref | Ref | Ref | Ref | Ref |
| 2014 | −3.2 (−9.0 to 2.5) | 0.7 (−2.6 to 4.1) | −4.0 (−6.6 to −1.3) | 0.2 (-0.5 to 1.0) | −3.4 (−8.6 to 1.7) | −1.3 (−2.0 to −0.6) | 1.6 (−1.7 to 4.9) | −3.5 (−5.8 to −1.3) |
| 2015 | 1.8 (−3.9 to 7.6) | 9.3 (5.9 to 12.7) | −7.4 (−10.1 to −4.8) | 1.2 (0.5 to 1.9) | 0.6 (−4.5 to 5.8) | −1.6 (−2.3 to −0.9) | 5.3 (2.0 to 8.7) | −1.9 (−4.2 to 0.4) |
| 2016 | 14.7 (−5.2 to 34.6) | 23.3 (10.2 to 36.5) | −8.4 (−20.1 to 3.2) | 3.4 (0.7 to 6.1) | 11.3 (−6.3 to 28.9) | −1.8 (−4.5 to 0.9) | 12.1 (-0.1 to 24.2) | 4.6 (-4.9 to 14.0) |
| Neighbourhood SES, very high | Ref | Ref | Ref | Ref | Ref | Ref | Ref | Ref |
| High | 16.0 (10.2 to 21.8) | 9.9 (6.5 to 13.3) | 6.0 (3.4 to 8.7) | 2.3 (1.6 to 3.1) | 13.7 (8.5 to 18.9) | 1.9 (1.2 to 2.7) | 8.2 (4.8 to 11.5) | 5.8 (3.6 to 8.1) |
| Low | 24.4 (18.2 to 30.6) | 14.2 (10.6 to 17.9) | 10.0 (7.2 to 12.9) | 2.9 (2.1 to 3.7) | 21.5 (16.0 to 27.1) | 3.2 (2.4 to 7.0) | 11.6 (8.0 to 15.2) | 9.5 (7.0 to 11.9) |
| Very low | 65.3 (58.7 to 71.9) | 36.8 (32.9 to 40.7) | 28.4 (25.3 to 31.4) | 8.7 (7.8 to 9.5) | 56.6 (50.7 to 62.5) | 7.6 (6.8 to 8.5) | 30.9 (27.1 to 34.7) | 26.7 (24.1 to 39.3) |
| Random effect | ||||||||
| Between PCS variance (SE) | 682.1 (198.1) | 306.1 (88.2) | 245.4 (68.4) | 12.5 (3.6) | 530.3 (154.7) | 12.6 (3.6) | 259.0 (75.7) | 160.0 (45.4) |
| ICC | 0.11 | 0.14 | 0.18 | 0.12 | 0.11 | 0.12 | 0.13 | 0.16 |
*Statistical significance: printed in bold if p≤0.05.
†Multilevel linear regression models controlled for neighbourhood demographic composition; constant: men, age group 0–4 years, year 2013, rural area, very high status neighbourhood.
ICC, intraclass correlation between PCS catchment areas: the relative contribution of PCS catchment area to the residual variance; PCS, primary care service; SES, socioeconomic status.