Characteristics of a stratified random sample of New Zealand general practices.
INTRODUCTION: Practice size and location may affect the quality and safety of health care. Little is known about contemporary New Zealand general practice characteristics in terms of staffing, ownership and services. AIM: To describe and compare the characteristics of small, medium and large general...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Primary Health Care Vol. 10; no. 2; pp. 114 - 125 |
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CSIRO Publishing
Jun2018
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=130371534&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 130371534 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 11726164 92I9 jtl: Journal of Primary Health Care issn: 11726164 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jun2018 vid: 10 iid: 2 pid: 1568 pub: CSIRO Publishing place: Canberra ACT, <Blank> artinfo: ui: 130371534 130371534 130371534 10.1071/HC17089 130371534 ppf: 114 ppct: 11 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Characteristics of a stratified random sample of New Zealand general practices. aug: au: Leitch, Sharon Dovey, Susan M. Samaranayaka, Ari Reith, David M. Wallis, Katharine A. Eggleton, Kyle S. McMenamin, Andrew W. Cunningham, Wayne K. Williamson, Martyn I. Lillis, Steven Tilyard, Murray W. affil: University of Otago, Dunedin School of Medicine, Dunedin, New Zealand sug: subj: Stratified Random Sample Family Practice Evaluation Human New Zealand Geographic Locations Control Group Quality of Health Care Evaluation Rural Areas Physicians, Family Primary Health Care Rural Health Databases ab: INTRODUCTION: Practice size and location may affect the quality and safety of health care. Little is known about contemporary New Zealand general practice characteristics in terms of staffing, ownership and services. AIM: To describe and compare the characteristics of small, medium and large general practices in rural and urban New Zealand. METHODS: Seventy-two general practices were randomly selected from the 2014 Primary Health Organisation database and invited to participate in a records review study. Forty-five recruited practices located throughout New Zealand provided data on staff, health-care services and practice ownership. Chi-square and other non-parametric statistical analyses were used to compare practices. RESULTS: The 45 study practices constituted 4.6% of New Zealand practices. Rural practices were located further from the nearest regional base hospital (rural median 65.0 km, urban 7.5 km (P < 0.001)), nearest local hospital (rural 25.7 km, urban 7.0 km (P = 0.002)) and nearest neighbouring general practitioner (GP) (rural 16.0 km, urban 1.0 km (P = 0.007)). In large practices, there were more enrolled patients per GP FTE than both medium-sized and small practices (mean 1827 compared to 1457 and 1120 respectively, P = 0.019). Nurses in large practices were more likely to insert intravenous lines (P = 0.026) and take blood (P = 0.049). There were no significant differences in practice ownership arrangements according to practice size or rurality. CONCLUSION: Study practices were relatively homogenous. Unsurprisingly, rural practices were further away from hospitals. Larger practices had higher patient-to-doctor ratios and increased nursing scope. The study sample is small; findings need to be confirmed by specifically powered research. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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