The impact of general practitioners' gender on process indicators in Hungarian primary healthcare: a nation-wide cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The objectives of our study were (1) to investigate the association between gender of the general practitioner (GP) and the quality of primary care in Hungary with respect to process indicators for GP performance and (2) to assess the size of the gender impact.

Study design

A nation-wide cross-sectional study was performed in 2016.

Setting and participants

The study covered all general medical practices in Hungary (n=4575) responsible for the provision of primary healthcare (PHC) for adults. All GPs in their private practices are solo practitioners.

Main outcome measures

Multilevel logistic regression models were used to analyse the association between GP gender and process indicators of PHC, and attributable proportion (AP) was calculated.

Result

SUBMITTER: Kovacs N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6731795 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature