Continuing Medical Education via Telemedicine and Sustainable Improvements to Health

Table 2

Regressions of online CME on selected variables.

Number of observations = 50
Period of test = 1995–2004
(4, 45) = 164.72;
Root MSE = 301.91
;
adjusted
Online CME	Coef.	Std. err.			95% conf. interval
Tel. care	0.499	0.274	1.82	0.075	−0.053	1.052
Per capita GDP	−1.531	0.097	−15.731	0.000	−1.726	−1.335
Per capita NHE	22.395	1.320	16.97	0.000	19.736	25.053
Con. services			4.02	0.000
Constant	2520.839	1005.661	2.49	0.017	477.334	4528.344

Significant at 10%; significant at 5%; significant at 1%;
Online CME: continuing medical education via telemedicine; tel. care: the quantity of telemedicine health services; per capita GDP: per capita gross domestic product; per capita NHE: per capita national health expenditure; and con. services: conventional health services.