Table 3.

Regression Coefficients of Primary Care Subspecialties, Specialty Care, and Income Inequity on Standardized Mortality, US States 1980–1995

	Age-Standardized Deaths per 100,000 Population from All Causes
	1980	1985	1990	1995
Intercept	751.19	613.25	442.69	632.56
	[213.11]	[184.90]	[204.43]	[186.78]
Gini Coefficent	954.55	950.42	1204.1	657.30
	[466.39]	[386.51]	[391.2]	[364.39]
	(2.05^†)	(2.46^†)	(3.08^‡)	(1.80^*)
Specialty Care	−1.73	3.55	1.27	5.48
	[10.22]	[9.89]	[9.82]	[11.20]
	(−.17)	(.36)	(.13)	(.49)
Family Medicine	−70.94	−50.69	−41.10	−38.69
	[16.60]	[15.68]	[15.42]	[14.59]
	(−4.27^‡)	(−3.23^‡)	(−2.67^‡)	(−2.65^‡)
Internal Medicine	7.80	−12.36	−8.56	−29.82
	[19.98]	[19.31]	[17.52]	[14.69]
	(.39)	(−.64)	(−.49)	(−2.03^†)
Pediatrics	−72.28	−27.69	−32.43	.43
	[58.68]	[52.60]	[48.76]	[38.02]
	(−1.23)	(−.53)	(−.67)	(.01)
R²	.43	.32	.38	.30
Adjusted R²	.36	.24	.31	.22
F Ratio	6.53^‡	4.09^‡	5.47^‡	3.78^‡

Parameter estimates on top, standard errors in brackets, t values in parentheses.
* P < .1
† P < .05
‡ P < .01
n = 50