Patient Complaint Cases in Primary Health Care: What Are the Characteristics of General Practitioners Involved?

Table 1

Receipt of a complaint case and association with general practitioner and practice characteristics¹.

	OR	𝑃	95% Confidence interval
General practitioner characteristics
Gender
Female	1
Male	0.97	0.82	0.73	1.29
Professional seniority^2	1.44	0.03	1.04	1.98
GP output per day^3	1.29	0.01	1.07	1.54
Practice and practice environment characteristics
Practice size	0.99	0.86	0.91	1.08
Socioeconomic index	1.61	0.16	0.83	3.13
Senior citizen proportion	0.99	0.76	0.93	1.05
Level of urbanization	0.99	0.09	0.97	1.00

¹Total number of Danish general practitioners, 𝑛 = 3,765; number of complaint cases, 𝑛 = 265.
²Per 20 additional years of professional seniority since graduation.
³Per 10 additional consultations per day. Average number of basic consultations per day per GP was 22.3 cons/(day*GP).