PMID: 8963009Sep 30, 1996Paper

Profile of primary care physicians in a health area: a cluster analysis

Atencion primaria
V R Cabedo GarcíaM J Tejedo Bellver

Abstract

To discover characteristics of primary care doctors. To find homogeneous groups of doctors. A basically descriptive crossover observational study. Primary care doctors from a health area. The following variables were recorded on the 99 doctors who worked in Castellon Area 03 during 1992: age, gender, fixed or temporary post, rural or urban area, MIR training, primary care model, patient load, sole employment, drugs expenditure, number of pensioners and total number of patients registered. We found a first group of older doctors, working mainly in the old model, for whom PC was not their sole employment; another younger group without MIR training and with an average patient load; the third group was women in temporary posts with a somewhat higher drugs expenditure; the fourth was doctors working in rural areas with a very low patient load; the fifth, final and youngest group was family doctors, with an average patient load, low expenditure and a high number of patients registered. We observed highly significant differences between groups. Doctors' age and gender divide them into different groupings; family doctors form one group. Multivariable, descriptive methods proved useful in finding, describing and classifying doctors and ...Continue Reading

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