Follow-up care delivery in community-based hypertension and type 2 diabetes management: a multi-centre, survey study among rural primary care physicians in China

Table 3 Logistic regression on physician-level factors associated with non-attainment of the target frequency of follow-up care delivery

	Model 1†		Model 2‡
	aOR (95%CI)	P	aOR (95%CI)	P
Age, mean	1.00 (0.96, 1.04)	0.98	1.00 (0.97, 1.03)	0.89
Gender
Male	1.00 (Ref)		1.00 (Ref)
Female	1.10 (0.84, 1.44)	0.43	1.14 (0.80, 1.62)	0.43
Ethnic group
Minorities	1.00 (Ref)		1.00 (Ref)
Han Chinese	0.16 (0.10, 0.25)	< 0.001	0.57 (0.40, 0.81)	0.01
Education level
Below undergraduate	1.00 (Ref)		1.00 (Ref)
Undergraduate or above	1.52 (1.01, 2.29)	0.05	2.23 (1.55, 3.19)	0.001
Working experiences
≥ 10 years	1.00 (Ref)		1.00 (Ref)
0–9 years	1.67 (0.87, 3.20)	0.11	1.75 (1.09, 2.81)	0.03
Number of daily patients seen
≤ 19	1.00 (Ref)		1.00 (Ref)
≥ 20	4.23 (2.19, 8.16)	0.001	2.33 (1.23, 4.41)	0.02
Venue of follow-up delivery
Mixed clinic and home visits	1.00 (Ref)		1.00 (Ref)
Clinic consultation rooms only	4.13 (1.99, 8.58)	0.002	3.20 (1.59, 6.44)	0.01

aOR adjusted odds ratio; CI confidence interval
†Model 1: Dependent variable: frequency of follow-up care < 4 times per year for hypertension
‡Model 2: Dependent variable: frequency of follow-up care < 4 times per year for type 2 diabetes
P values larger than 0.01 were rounded to two decimal places

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