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Home visits: why do rates vary so much?

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  • 1Donegal Specialist Training Programme in General Practice, Education Centre, St. Conals, Letterkenny, Co Donegal. pspstewart62@gmail.com

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|May 8, 2012
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Summary

Home visiting rates in rural Irish general practices vary significantly. Older patients and doctor-initiated calls are more common in high-visiting practices, suggesting doctor behavior influences variation.

Area of Science:

  • General Practice
  • Health Services Research
  • Rural Health

Background:

  • Home visits are a key component of primary care, particularly in rural settings.
  • Understanding variations in home visiting patterns is crucial for resource allocation and service delivery.
  • There is a lack of recent data on general practitioner (GP) home visiting rates in Ireland.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the annual rate of home visits conducted by GPs in rural Irish teaching practices.
  • To identify factors associated with variations in home visiting rates between practices.
  • To compare characteristics of high-visiting versus low-visiting practices.

Main Methods:

  • Data collected from 12 rural GP practices over two months.
  • Included patient demographics, visit initiator, and call classification.

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  • Calculated annual visiting rates per 1000 patients.

    • Main Results:

    • A total of 603 home visits were recorded, yielding an annual rate of 143/1000 patients.
    • Visiting rates ranged widely from 45 to 305/1000 per year across practices.
    • High-visiting practices (>210/1000/year) had older patients (79.7 vs. 74.5 years) and more doctor-initiated (16.6% vs. 1.4%) and routine (50.7% vs. 44.9%) calls compared to low-visiting practices (<90/1000/year).

    Conclusions:

    • Patient age partially explains variations in home visiting rates.
    • Differences in doctor home visiting behavior appear to be a major driver of practice variation.
    • Findings highlight the need for updated national data on GP home visiting in Ireland.