Physician-related variables |
Physician age | −0.24* | 0.04 | 0.005* | −0.16* | 0.04 | 0.002 (0.6)* |
Years in medical practice† | −0.25* | 0.04 | 0.006* | | | |
Male physician sex | 8.55* | 0.82 | 0.016* | 6.20* | 0.72 | 0.006 (1.7)* |
Additional postgraduate training after family medicine residency | 6.97* | 0.82 | 0.011* | 3.22* | 0.68 | 0.002 (0.6)* |
Payment via fee-for-service only | −10.12* | 0.78 | 0.024* | −7.88* | 0.68 | 0.016 (4.6)* |
Availability of health care resources to main practice setting |
Specialists | −2.08* | 0.40 | 0.004* | −1.13* | 0.35 | 0.001 (0.3)‡ |
Hospital beds | 1.09* | 0.37 | 0.001‡ | 0.97‡ | 0.36 | 0.001 (0.3)‡ |
Practice organization |
No. of different types of allied health professionals in main practice setting | −2.84* | 0.30 | 0.013* | 1.33* | 0.31 | 0.002 (0.6)* |
Main practice setting (private office) | | | 0.010* | | | 0.009 (2.6)* |
• Community clinic, CHC, CLSC | −12.32* | 1.55 | | −11.87* | 1.50 | |
• Academic family medicine teaching unit | 2.24§ | 2.22 | | 8.97* | 1.90 | |
Practice type (solo practice) | | | 0.019* | | | 0.007 (2.0)* |
• Family physician group practice | 6.58* | 0.93 | | 5.35* | 0.81 | |
• Family physician–specialist group practice | −7.30* | 1.49 | | 1.95§ | 1.32 | |
Geographic variables | | | 0.095* | | | 0.110 (31.3)* |
Population served (urban) | | | | | | |
• Semiurban | 16.43* | 0.96 | | 17.20* | 0.86 | |
• Rural | 24.57* | 1.03 | | 23.96* | 0.97 | |
Provinces (Quebec) | | | 0.195* | | | 0.195 (55.6)* |
• Newfoundland and Labrador | 28.75* | 2.83 | | 26.89* | 2.59 | |
• Prince Edward Island | 35.07* | 3.62 | | 29.91* | 3.28 | |
• New Brunswick | 39.73* | 2.63 | | 37.65* | 2.40 | |
• Nova Scotia | 34.64* | 2.00 | | 34.54* | 1.85 | |
• Ontario | 21.87* | 0.96 | | 27.31* | 0.94 | |
• Manitoba | 26.33* | 2.16 | | 26.07* | 1.97 | |
• Saskatchewan | 47.54* | 2.16 | | 48.29* | 1.99 | |
• Alberta | 33.54* | 1.39 | | 35.52* | 1.31 | |
• British Columbia | 40.00* | 1.14 | | 43.68* | 1.14 | |