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The adjusted consultation ratio for new chest symptoms also increased but this did not reach statistical significance (ratio 1.19, 95% CI 0.92 to 1.53).
The total consultation rate was significantly higher in the intervention group (adjusted consultation ratio 1.15, 95% CI 1.04 to 1.27 p=0.005) with a median number of consultations in the year after intervention of 8 (IQR 4 11).
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Compared to an overall male to female consultation rate ratio of 0.72, the ratio was 0.92 for patients in receipt of medication for depression and 0.95 for patients in receipt of medication for CVD.
We also evaluated the differences between men and women in occurrence of subclasses of diagnoses, by calculating the new onset consultation rate ratio and their 95% confidence interval (95% CI).
The most prominent factor related to continuity of care was having a specific doctor appointed by the health centre for the consultation (odds ratio = 7.28, 95% confidence interval = 6.65 to 7.96).
The overall turn-down rate (contraindications and refusals) for elective surgery was 14·6percentnt (115 of 787); it increased with age at consultation (odds ratio per 5 years 1·6, 95percentnt c.i. 1·1 to 2·3).
Cough lasted a median of 17 days in patients with pertussis (interquartile range [IQR] 10 28) and 12 days in patients without pertussis (IQR 7 21) after the index consultation (hazard ratio 0.68, 95% CI = 0.51 to 0.91; P = 0.008).
There was no significant intervention effect when telephone consultations were counted as reconsultations along with face to face primary care consultations (odds ratio 0.81; 0.47 to 1.42), or when consultations at accident and emergency departments were included along with primary care consultations (0.85; 0.48 to 1.51).
There was also a significant interaction with the consultation rate (likelihood ratio test p<0.0001) with excellent discrimination of each Charlson index derivation when the number of consultations in the prior year was below 14, and good discrimination above 14 consultations in the prior year (table 4).
There were no significant differences in the rates of re-consultation (rate ratio 1.24, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.86 to 1.79, P = 0.25).
6 In terms of GP consultations, the ratio between the summer and autumn peaks was 1.4 in Wales compared with 3.8 in England.
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