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Table 3 Results of regression analysis on number of physician contacts and number of physicians contacted per year in the study population

From: Patterns of ambulatory medical care utilization in elderly patients with special reference to chronic diseases and multimorbidity - Results from a claims data based observational study in Germany

 

Number of contacts with physicians

Number of physicians contacted

R 2

0.30

0.195

 

B

p- value

95% CI

B

p- value

95% CI

Age (centred)

-0.03

0.0031

-0.05

-0.01

-0.05

<.0001

-0.05

-0.05

Sex (female)

0.05

0.6317

-0.17

0.28

0.16

<.0001

0.12

0.19

Nursing dependency (yes)

10.37

<.0001

10.01

10.72

-0.20

<.0001

-0.25

-0.14

Number of chronic conditions

2.33

<.0001

2.28

2.38

0.24

<.0001

0.23

0.24

Number of chronic conditions (log scale)

1.62

<.0001

157

1.67

0.25

<.0001

0.24

0.26

  1. R 2 = proportion of variance explained by the regression model.
  2. B = beta = regression coefficient
  3. p = statistical significance of the effect of the independent variables