OBJECTIVES: To analyse the professional profile and organization influence about sanitary resources use. DESIGN: Cross-sectional descriptive study. SETTING: Primary care in the Community of Murcia. MEASUREMENTS: Data were collected in the Information and Register Unit of the Primary Care Management and through personal survey about the personal and professional features of the physicians, place of work, accessibility and availability and the resources use of themselves. A two-variable study was made selecting the significant variables for the multiple regression test and multiple analysis of variance, with the corresponding multiple classification analysis. MAIN RESULTS: 24% of the frequency can be explained through the professional profile of the physicians and the organization of work of place. Resource use depend on this variables between 7% drugs use) and 46% (tapping to specialists), taking into account that the size of the quota, the greater than 65 years old persons proportion and the size of the town are the most variability explaining variables. CONCLUSIONS: In our area, the professional profile and organization have a scarce influence in the utilization of sanitary resource.
OBJECTIVES: To analyse the professional profile and organization influence about sanitary resources use. DESIGN: Cross-sectional descriptive study. SETTING: Primary care in the Community of Murcia. MEASUREMENTS: Data were collected in the Information and Register Unit of the Primary Care Management and through personal survey about the personal and professional features of the physicians, place of work, accessibility and availability and the resources use of themselves. A two-variable study was made selecting the significant variables for the multiple regression test and multiple analysis of variance, with the corresponding multiple classification analysis. MAIN RESULTS: 24% of the frequency can be explained through the professional profile of the physicians and the organization of work of place. Resource use depend on this variables between 7% drugs use) and 46% (tapping to specialists), taking into account that the size of the quota, the greater than 65 years old persons proportion and the size of the town are the most variability explaining variables. CONCLUSIONS: In our area, the professional profile and organization have a scarce influence in the utilization of sanitary resource.
Authors: Lidia Clara Rodríguez García; Juan Ferrándiz Santos; Juan José González; Gustavo Mora Navarro; Gabriela García Álvarez; María Teresa Alonso Salazar Journal: Aten Primaria Date: 2011-02-19 Impact factor: 1.137