Objective To investigate the impact of factors outside the control of primary care on performance indicators proposed as measures of the quality of primary care. Design Multiple regression analysis relating admission rates standardised for age and sex for asthma, diabetes, and epilepsy to socioeconomic population characteristics and to the supply of secondary care resources. Setting 90 family h...

OBJECTIVE A small number of patients frequently using the emergency department (ED) account for a disproportionate amount of the total ED workload and are considered using this service inappropriately. The aim of this study was to identify prospectively personal characteristics and experience of organizational and relational dimensions of primary care that predict frequent use of ED. METHODS ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the impact of factors outside the control of primary care on performance indicators proposed as measures of the quality of primary care. DESIGN Multiple regression analysis relating admission rates standardised for age and sex for asthma, diabetes, and epilepsy to socioeconomic population characteristics and to the supply of secondary care resources. SETTING 90 fami...

OBJECTIVES To calculate socioeconomic and health status measures for the primary care groups in London and to examine the association between these measures and hospital admission rates. DESIGN Cross sectional study. SETTING 66 primary care groups in London, total list size 8.0 million people. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Elective and emergency standardised hospital admission ratios; standardise...

Assessment of risk factors Childhood risk factors were assessed up to 9 years of age: neurodevelopmental characteristics (perinatal insults, gross motor skills, and intelligence quotient); parental characteristics (mother’s internalising symptoms, including depression and anxiety, mother–child interactions, criminal conviction history, and parental disagreement about discipline); family charact...

AIM The aim of this study was to describe the distribution of demographic factors and socioeconomic characteristics among primary health care users diagnosed with osteoarthritis in Albania, a transitional country in the Western Balkans. METHODS This study included all individuals diagnosed with osteoarthritis during January 2013 - December 2014 in selected primary health care centers in Tiran...

Introduction Campaigns to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS require accurate knowledge of the characteristics of those most likely to contract the disease. Studies conducted in Sub-Saharan Africa during the 1980s generally found a positive correlation between socioeconomic characteristics such as education, income, and wealth and subsequent contraction of HIV (see Ainsworth and Semali 1998; Gregso...

I Purpose and background of the study 2 Area studied and study design 4 Socioeconomic characteristics of respondents 6 Changes in fertility since the early 1950s 10 Birth-history analysis 10 Fertility trends estimated from several sources I1

Asthma prevalence in the United States has been reported to be higher in minority groups such as Blacks and Hispanics. Because a disproportionate number of individuals from such minority groups are of low socioeconomic status (SES), it is unclear how much of the racial/ethnic differences in asthma prevalence is related to low SES. We investigated the effect of SES on the relationship between ra...