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Table 2 Percentage of individuals in each income group reporting poor quality of care relative to all eligible respondents in that category

From: Equity of primary care service delivery for low income “sicker” adults across 10 OECD countries

Indicators

Access

Coordination

Patient Centered Care

Technical Quality of Care

Income

n

Low

Middle

High

n

Low

Middle

High

N

Low

Middle

High

N

Low

Middle

High

Overall

14,143

64.1

63.5

60.2

13,419

63.5

57.5

60.6

13,718

49.5

46.4

45.1

11,008

53.1

50.1

45.5

Sweden

4,149

63.2

64.6

61.7

3679

70.9

62.0

61.3

3,961

62.0

59.0

60.0

3,229

66.7

64.5

61.4

Canada

3,191

79.1

78.4

74.4

3,073

55.7

51.0

49.1

3,061

48.9

43.7

47.2

2,517

44.7

40.6

28.1

Australia

1,236

63.6

68.5

63.2

1,214

59.8

62.8

69.1

1,215

37.0

34.6

27.0

950

48.4

45.2

40.9

United States

964

76.8

70.6

52.2

943

60.1

44.7

55.6

915

43.9

38.6

31.4

826

43.3

40.6

35.4

France

871

42.7

52.3

43.3

862

79.9

83.1

85.7

866

49.2

49.9

41.4

643

65.3

69.3

57.1

Germany

851

57.1

56.9

50.4

849

78.6

76.6

80.5

827

38.2

40.6

34.2

608

51.4

37.8

32.0

United Kingdom

832

44.7

38.7

33.3

808

45.0

29.9

58.3

825

42.7

21.9

16.0

631

35.2

19.3

41.2

Netherlands

741

55.1

52.4

45.9

718

70.7

66.4

78.1

734

45.2

38.6

31.1

596

52.2

52.6

70.6

Norway

671

54.5

53.1

59.6

656

66.4

54.7

55.6

678

81.2

66.3

62.5

554

68.8

67.7

52.5

New Zealand

637

50.0

53.6

41.3

617

39.9

46.5

56.3

636

27.2

35.9

28.2

454

39.6

38.4

32.7

  1. Individuals with incomplete data in the domain studied were excluded (Access = 119, Coordination = 843, Patient Centered Care = 544, Technical Quality of Care =133). These were distributed across all countries. 11,141 were eligible to respond to the technical quality of care questions