BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Table 1 Independent variables used in the MGSR

From: A multi-granular stacked regression for forecasting long-term demand in Emergency Departments

Variable	Mean (std.)	Median [IQR]
GP capacity^a	4382 (786)	4398 [3913,4872]
111 Capacity^a	354 (176)	331 [273,373]
Ambulance capacity^a	352 (286)	215 [156,677]
Population^b	62 (48)	50 [27,87]
% > 65	19 (4)	19 [16,21]
People	99 (6)	100 [94,104]
Places	100 (2)	100 [98,101]
Lives	100 (6)	100 [97,105]

Variable statistics for 74 CCGs. People, places and lives refer to domains in the ONS Health Index
std standard deviation; IQR interquartile range
^a Variables in units of per 10,000 people
^b Scaled by 10,000

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