From: Factors related to treatment intensity in Swiss primary care
Type of variable | Description |
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Outcome | Number of annual physician consultations |
Explanatory variables | |
- Level I (physician) | Model 1: Number of patients treated in 2004 a. |
Model 2: 4 indicator variables (P_Q1 – P_Q4) representing quartiles of the number of patients treated in 2004a | |
Physician gender | |
Physician age | |
Professional qualificationb | |
Average patient age | |
Proportion of female patient consultations | |
- Level II (service area) | Number of PCP's per 10,000 inhabitants |
Number of specialistsc per 10,000 inhabitants | |
Presence of a hospital providing ambulatory services (coded as a binary variable with 0 for no hospital and 1 for at least one hospital). | |
Number of deaths per 1000 inhabitants (mortality) |