A comparison of the workload of rural and urban primary care physicians in Germany: analysis of a questionnaire survey

Table 4 Influences on working time, proportion of privately insured patients and patients seen per week

	Working time		Number of private insured patients		Number patients seen per week
	ß (p-value)	t	ß (p-value)	t	ß (p-value)	t
Gender	-.167 (< .001)	-4.679	.035 (.363)	-.911	-.047 (.195)	-1.298
Age	-.034 (.339)	-.957	-.090 (< .05)	-2.413	-.025 (.473)	-0.717
East/West	-.021 (.562)	-.581	-.218 (< .001)	-5.711	.111 (< .01)	3.065
single/group practice	-.084 (< .05)	-2.328	-.106 (<.01)	-1.160	-.005 (.881)	-.150
localisation of practice (urban/rural)	.059 (.096)	1.668	-.043 (.246)	-1.160	.035 (.311)	1.014
Mean patients per week	.385 (< .001)	10.527	-.198 (< .001)	-4.811	__	__
Proportion of private insured patients	.005 (.884)	.146	__	__	-.200 (< .001)	-4.811
Working time per week	__	__	.006 (.884)	.146	.377 (< .001)	10.527
Pseudo R ²		0.202		0.108		0.219
F (p-value)		24.797 (< .001)		12.378 (< .001)		27.407 (< .001)

(results of linear regression analysis, under specification of standardized beta coefficient, α = 5%)

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