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Table 5 Influence of patient and family practice characteristics on primary preventive cardiovascular prescribing behaviour (n = 45 family practices; n = 116,920 patients)

From: Primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases: a cost study in family practices

  

Random effect Adjusted

SE

p-value

Patient

characteristics

Age (per 10 year)

0.512

0.009

< 0.001

 

Gender (female vs male)

0.191

0.032

< 0.001

 

Type of insurance (private vs national)

-0.158

0.035

< 0.001

 

Disadvantage neighbourhood (yes vs no)

0.140

0.088

0.11

FP characteristics

Practice type (ref. single handed)

   
 

Duo

-0.540

0.214

0.01

 

Group

-0.127

0.184

0.49

 

Health care center

-0.133

0.255

0.60

 

Urbanisation (ref. very strongly)

   
 

Strongly

0.249

0.237

0.29

 

Moderately

-0.126

0.221

0.57

 

Weakly

0.001

0.219

0.99

 

not

0.226

0.193

0.24

  1. Note: Values are random effect logistic regression coefficients. A positive number means a higher probability on prescription of cardiovascular medication.