Primary Care Quality among Different Health Care Structures in Tibet, China

Table 3

Multivariate liner regression analysis on primary care assessment score.

Dependent variable: primary care achievement (total score)	(95% CI)	SE	value
Intercept	68.77 (63.32–74.22)	2.78	<0.001
Health care settings
PH	—
CH	4.66 (3.37–5.95)	0.66	<0.001
THC	8.49 (7.11–9.87)	0.70	<0.001
Health care service utilization
Whether inpatient in the past year
Yes	—
No	2.65 (1.37–3.92)	0.65	<0.001
Number of PCP visits in the past year
≤3	—
≥4	−1.27 (−2.37–−0.17)	0.56	0.024
Health status
Self-rated health
Unhealthy	—
Healthy	1.55 (0.20–2.89)	0.69	0.024
Sociodemographic characteristics
Gender
Male	—
Female	−0.59 (−1.59–0.42)	0.51	0.252
Age
<60 years	—
≥60 years	1.00 (−0.62–2.62)	0.83	0.226
Income
≤30000 RMB	—
>30000 RMB	0.80 (−0.24–1.84)	0.53	0.132
Education
Below junior high school	—
Junior high school and above	−1.56 (−2.77–−0.35)	0.62	0.012
Marital status
Unmarried	—
Married	1.23 (0.02–2.44)	0.62	0.046
Occupation
Employed	—
Unemployed	1.17 (−0.14–2.47)	0.66	0.080

THC = township health center; CH = county hospital; PH = prefecture hospital; SE = standard error.