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Table 2 Patient population characteristics of practices in 7 categories for use of hospital services

From: Exploration of population and practice characteristics explaining differences between practices in the proportion of hospital admissions that are emergencies

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

  1. Means (95% CIs) N = 229.