Shifting hospital care to primary care: An evaluation of cardiology care in a primary care setting in the Netherlands

Table 4 Multivariable logistic regression analysis: significant predictive variables on the advice of the cardiologist: follow-up in hospital care setting after PC+

Independent variables	Advice of the cardiologist: follow-up in hospital care setting after PC+^A
Independent variables	b	OR	95% CI	P-value
Gender^B	0.617	1.854	1.437–2.393	< .001
Age^c	0.228	1.256	1.143–1.381	< .001
Referral indication
Dyspnoea	0.458	1.581	1.120–2.231	.009
Stable Angina Pectoris	1.203	3.331	1.847–6.009	< .001
Reason for referral
Screening of unclear pathology	0.845	2.328	1.580–3.430	< .001
To confirm disease	1.282	3.604	2.180–5.959	< .001
To reassure the patient	−1.475	0.229	0.071–0.739	.014

Note: ^A The advice was coded as: 0 = Follow-up in primary care setting, 1 = Follow-up in hospital care setting; ^B Gender was coded as 0 = female and 1 = male; ^C Age was rescaled such that one unit is equal to ten years

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