Association between sepsis incidence and regional socioeconomic deprivation and health care capacity in Germany – an ecological study

Table 1 Pearson correlation coefficients of indicators of socioeconomic deprivation and medical infrastructure and mean age

	Unemployment rate	Net household income (100 Euro)	Rate of school leavers w/o certificate	Hospital beds/1000 population	GPs/100,000 population	Distance to the next pharmacy (1000 m)
Net household income (100 Euro/year)	−0.660***
Rate of school leavers w/o certificate	0.485***	−0.461***
Hospital beds/1000 population ^a	0.315***	−0.195***	0.112*
GPs/100,000 population	0.355***	−0.113*	0.111*	0.780***
Distance to the next pharmacy (1000 m)	−0.256***	− 0.122*	0.108*	− 0.406***	− 0.627***
Mean Age	0.334***	−0.350***	0.425***	−0.082	− 0.175***	0.408*

* p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001
^a Correlation coefficients that include net household income are based on 399 instead of 401 German districts due to missing values for two districts (Soemmerda & Fuerth)

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