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Table 1 The proportions of total admissions that were emergency, categorised into 7 groups of practices (means and standard deviations [SD])

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

Category

Mean

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

Emergency Admissions/1000 Patients

88.6 (84.6-92.6)

64.9 (60.2-69.5)

77.3 (74.2-80.3)

85.8 (82.9-88.8)

87.4 (80.3-94.5)

99.7 (92.9-106.6)

110.1 (98.9-121.2)

134.0 (76.4-191.6)

0.002

<0.001

Elective Admissions/1000 Patients

108 (104.9-111.9)

130.4 (120.9-140.0)

128.0 (123.0-132.9)

117.8 (114.1-121.5)

95.5 (88.0-103.0)

90.87 (84.5-97.2)

82.4 (73.2-91.6)

62.9 (50.5-75.2)

0.002

<0.001

OPD Appointments/10000 Patients

6704.55 (6550.1-6858.9)

6238.2 (5764.8-6711.5)

6626.3 (6303.6-6949.0)

7183.8 (6935.3-7432.4)

650.08 (6010.9-7005.1)

686.1 (6512.1-7209.2)

6580.7 (5986.6-7175.7)

5927.7 (5034.8-6820.6)

−0.002

0.496

ED attendance/10000 Patients

2115.2 (2001.5-2229.9)

1822.3 (1665.1-1979.4)

2069.0 (1924.7-2213.3)

1971.8 (1816.9-2126.7)

1881.4 (1667.4-2095.4)

2262.7 (2124.7-2400.6)

2448.7 (2179.1.9-2716.4)

3282.3 (1607.4-4957.2)

0.053

<0.001