ArticleThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners2005
Council tax valuation band of patient residence and clinical contacts in a general practice.
Article in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Deprivation, demography, and the distribution of general practice: challenging the conventional wisdom of inverse care.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2008Article
- Poor thinking: new thoughts needed on the UK health/wealth divide.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2006Article
- Council tax valuation bands, socio-economic status and health outcome: a cross-sectional analysis from the Caerphilly Health and Social Needs Study.BMC public health · 2006Article
- Council tax valuation bands and contacts with a GP out-of-hours service.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2006Article
- Council tax valuation band predicts breast feeding and socio-economic status in the ALSPAC study population.BMC public health · 2006Article
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Abstract
backgroundThere is a dearth of data relating UK general practice workload to personal and social markers of individual patients.
aimTo test whether there is a significant association between general practice patient contact rates and the council tax valuation band of their residential address. DESIGN OF STUDY: Cross-sectional analyses using data recorded, over 1 year, for over 3300 general practice patients.
settingOne medium-sized group practice in an industrialised English market town.
methodFace-to-face contacts between the patients and the doctors and nurses in the practice were compared by patient age, sex, registration period, distance from surgery, Underprivileged Area 8 (UPA8) score, and council tax valuation band.
resultsPatient sex, age, recent registration, distance from surgery, and council tax valuation band were each significantly associated with face-to-face contact rate in univariate analyses. UPA8 score was not significantly associated with contact rates. On multivariate testing, sex, age, recent registration, and council tax valuation band remained significantly associated with contact rates. The last is a new finding.
conclusionCouncil tax valuation bands predict contact rate in general practice; the lower the band, the higher the contact rate. Council tax valuation band could be a useful marker of workload that is linked to socioeconomic status. This is a pilot study and multipractice research is advocated.
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