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Table 9 Restricted (versus broad) remote access according to characteristics of General Practitioners

From: Access to General Practitioners during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal: a nationwide survey of doctors

GP characteristics

practice phone line

work mobile

personal mobile

phone medical query

medical query e-mail

video consultation

 

% restricted access

sex

 female

23.3

90.5

96.9

25.7

13.2

94.9

 male

27.7

89.0

93.3

31.9

17.6

92.3

p-value

0.359

0.655

0.109

0.207

0.260

0.325

age (years)

  ≤ 35

35.2

100

98.6

43.7

23.9

93.0

 36–45

23.6

93.1

97.5

30.4

14.3

92.4

 46–55

10.9

87.0

95.7

10.9

10.9

97.8

  > 55

25.0

78.0

90.5

19.8

9.4

95.8

p-value

0.028

 < 0.001

0.044

 < 0.001

0.054

0.524

region of practice

 North

17.7

88.5

94.3

21.5

16.5

94.9

 Centre

39.4

96.0

97.6

40.2

11.0

92.7

 Other

16.7

85.4

95.5

21.1

16.7

95.5

p-value

 < 0.001

0.023

0.371

 < 0.001

0.361

0.711

Family Practice model

 ‘UCSP’

23.4

87.0

96.1

32.5

29.9

93.5

 model A

31.7

91.1

98.4

31.7

16.3

92.6

 model B

20.2

91.0

93.6

22.5

6.9

95.3

p-value

0.075

0.573

0.133

0.125

 < 0.001

0.621

non-clinical roles

 no

25.5

89.3

96.0

28.3

14.7

93.7

 yes

14.3

95.1

95.2

21.4

16.7

95.1

p-value

0.109

0.407

0.684

0.344

0.739

1

other paid work

 no

24.1

90.1

97.7

29.2

14.8

95.7

 yes

26.5

90.6

92.3

24.8

14.5

90.5

p-value

0.623

0.876

0.014

0.379

0.948

0.052

contracted weekly workload (hours)

 up to 35

22.4

87.9

100.0

26.9

14.9

95.5

 36–40

26.4

90.4

94.5

30.7

15.4

93.7

  > 40

21.2

92.2

96.2

15.4

11.5

94.0

p-value

0.634

0.718

0.120

0.079

0.778

0.944

 

broad versus restricted access

crude list size

 mean difference [95% IC]

-36 [-93, 21]

88 [5, 170]

 

21 [-34, 76]

-39 [-109, 31]

 

p-value

0.215

0.037

non-normal

0.461

0.27

non-normal

weighted list size

 mean difference [95% IC]

-21 [-97, 54]

42 [-70, 154]

 

-3 [-75, 70]

-33 [-129, 63]

 

p-value

0.573

0.464

non-normal

0.943

0.505

non-normal

average weekly hours

 mean difference [95% IC]

-1.0 [-3.1, 1.2]

-1.5 [-4.6, 1.6]

-0.3 [-4.9, 4.4]

0.1 [-2.2, 2.4]

2.8 [0.2, 5.4]

[-4.5, 3.2]

p-value

0.374

0.346

0.909

0.953

0.032

0.745

  1. Significant p-values are shown in bold
  2. GP General Practitioner, LVT Lisbon and Tagus valley, ‘UCSP’ Family Practices on a salaried-only scheme; Model A: Family Practices on a salaried-only scheme but working to reach pay-for-performance and capitation schemes; Model B: Family Practices on a mix of salaried, pay-for-performance and capitation schemes