| アブストラクト | BACKGROUND: Workload in general practice has risen during the last decade, but the factors associated with this increase are unclear. AIM: To examine factors associated with consultation rates in general practice. DESIGN AND SETTING: A cross-sectional study examining a sample of 304 937 patients registered at 316 English practices between 2013 and 2014, drawn from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink. METHOD: Age, sex, ethnicity, smoking status, and deprivation measures were linked with practice-level data on staffing, rurality, training practice status, and Quality and Outcomes Framework performance. Multilevel analyses of patient consultation rates were conducted. RESULTS: Consultations were grouped into three types: all (GP or nurse), GP, and nurse. Non-smokers consulted less than current smokers (all: rate ratio [RR] = 0.88, 95% CI = 0.87 to 0.89; GP: RR = 0.88, 95% CI = 0.87 to 0.89; nurse: RR = 0.91, 95% CI = 0.90 to 0.92). Consultation rates were higher for those in the most deprived quintile compared with the least deprived quintile (all: RR = 1.18, 95% CI = 1.16 to 1.19; GP: RR = 1.17, 95% CI = 1.15 to 1.19; nurse: RR = 1.13, 95% CI = 1.11 to 1.15). For all three consultation types, consultation rates increased with age and female sex, and varied by ethnicity. Rates in practices with >8 and </=19 full-time equivalent (FTE) GPs were higher compared with those with </=2 FTE GPs (all: RR = 1.26, 95% CI = 1.06 to 1.49; GP: RR = 1.36, 95% CI = 1.19 to 1.56). CONCLUSION: The analyses show consistent trends in factors related to consultation rates in general practice across three types of consultation. These data can be used to inform the development of more sophisticated staffing models, and resource allocation formulae. |
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| ジャーナル名 | The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners |
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| 投稿日 | 2018/4/25 |
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| 投稿者 | Mukhtar, Toqir K; Bankhead, Clare; Stevens, Sarah; Perera, Rafael; Holt, Tim A; Salisbury, Chris; Hobbs, Fd Richard |
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| 組織名 | Department of Population, Policy and Practice, University College London, and PhD;student, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge,;Cambridge.;Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Oxford.;Centre for Academic Primary Care, School of Social and Community Medicine,;University of Bristol, Bristol. |
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| Pubmed リンク | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29686130/ |
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