Table 3

Results of nine different simultaneous autoregressive regression models with ‘proportion of patients with coordinated healthcare use by GPs’ as target variable in association with different independent variables

ModelExplanatory variablesβSEp Value
1Administrative status (reference: rural district)
 City−7.521.67<0.001
2Settlement structure (reference: large cities)
 Urban districts3.112.990.300
 Rural districts with densification8.992.800.001
 Sparsely populated rural districts9.762.80<0.001
3Settlement structure (reference: large cities)
 Urban districts−3.783.360.264
 Rural districts with densification2.703.090.383
 Sparsely populated rural districts3.543.120.259
Administrative Status (reference: rural district)
 City−7.491.89<0.001
4 Physician density of GPs−0.210.090.020
5Physician density of GPs
 Administrative Status (reference: rural district)0.000.131.000
 City−5.2714.390.710
 Interaction of GP density and administrative status−0.030.190.880
6 Physician density (all ambulatory physicians)−0.060.01<0.001
7 Physician density (all ambulatory physicians)−0.160.03<0.001
 Administrative Status (reference: rural district)
 City
−24.1010.080.017
 Interaction of density of all physicians: district0.140.04<0.001
8Bavarian Index of Multiple Deprivation
(reference: quintile 1 with least deprived districts)
 Quintile 22.642.170.223
 Quintile 35.752.130.007
 Quintile 48.392.16<0.001
 Quintile 51.482.360.531
9Bavarian Index of Multiple Deprivation
(reference: quintile 1 with least deprived districts)
 Quintile 23.921.820.031
 Quintile 37.991.81<0.001
 Quintile 412.551.88<0.001
 Quintile 59.382.19<0.001
Administrative status (reference: rural district)
 City−11.021.59<0.001
  • GP, general practitioner.