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Table 3 Mean number of recorded problems (crude rate) and differences in mean annual visits to a GP (crude rates and adjusted for age and sex) by patient demographics

From: The contribution of demographic and morbidity factors to self-reported visit frequency of patients: a cross-sectional study of general practice patients in Australia

  

Annual visits

  

Crude

Adjusted

Patient characteristics (n)

Mean problems

Mean visits

Mean visits

p-value

Highly accessible (8,702)

2.9

9.1

9.0

 

Moderately accessible (1,599)

2.7

7.7

7.9

0.05

Remote/very remote (145)

2.5

5.8

6.5

<.0001

Concession health care card holder (4,448)

3.5

11.4

10.7

<.0001

Non health care card holder (6,307)

2.4

6.8

7.5

 

Speaks language other than English at home (890)

2.8

9.0

9.1

0.369

Speaks English at home (9,865)

2.9

8.7

8.8

 

Male (4,285)

2.7

8.5

N/A

N/A

Female (6,404)

2.9

8.9

N/A

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