Results of univariable and multivariable analyses with complete case analysis: N = 6789.
INDEPENDENT VARIABLES (REFERENCE CATEGORY) | UNADJUSTED β (UNSTANDARDIZED REGRESSION COEFFICIENT) | STANDARD ERROR OF UNADJUSTED β | UNADJUSTED R2 | ADJUSTED β (UNSTANDARDIZED REGRESSION COEFFICIENT) | STANDARD ERROR OF ADJUSTED β | ADJUSTED R2(% OF TOTALR2EXPLAINED) |
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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 |