Which practice characteristics are associated with the quality of cardiovascular disease prevention in European primary care?

Table 2 Practice characteristics and organisational measures

Countries	Practices	Patients	Urban¹	FTE²GP ≥ 2	Practice scores
Countries	Practices	Patients	Urban¹	FTE²GP ≥ 2	PrevServ³		EMR⁴		CCM⁵		QM⁶
	N	N	%	%	%	SD⁷	%	SD	%	SD	%	SD
Austria	24	285	25.0	0.0	22.1*↓	16.4	73.3	23.3	42.4	29.5	47.2	31.0
Belgium	24	266	9.1	50.0	35.6*↓	19.0	85.8	30.3	20.1*↓	20.3	30.6	40.4
France	29	377	21.4	50,0	24.1*↓	17.2	86.2	18.6	21.8*↓	31.2	23.0⁺↓	29.7
Germany	26	470	16.7	22.2	28.1*↓	21.1	70.8	41.3	56.4	35.6	24.4⁺↓	27.6
Netherlands	34	467	35.3	23.5	47.1	19.7	95.3*↑	11.1	71.1*↑	19.8	23.5*↓	25.3
Slovenia	36	842	25.0	51.6	76.1*↑	13.6	54.4*↓	30.8	41.7⁺↓	25.4	30.6	36.8
Spain	36	652	41.7	97.2	89.5*↑	9.4	99.4*↑	3.3	88.0*↑	12.4	64.8*↑	22.5
Switzerland	22	329	0.0	5.9	28.7*↓	15.8	50.9*↓	30.7	9.8*↑	16.8	10.6*↑	26.0
UK	36	535	76.5	77.8	87.2*↑	8.4	100.0*↑	0.0	94.4*↑	9.8	98.1*↑	7.7
Total	267	4223	31.2	47.5	53.0	31.1	81.1	29.2	53.6	36.7	41.8	38.7

¹ Urban = Practice in towns with more than 100.000 inhabitants (more than 30.000 for Slovenia).
² FTE = Full time equivalent.
³ PrevServ = Preventive Services (score: % of ‘yes answers’ from 13 items) (Table 3).
⁴ EMR = Electronic medical record (score: % of ‘yes answers’ from 5 items) (Table 3).
⁵ CCM = Chronic Care Management (score: % of ‘yes answers’ from 6 items) (Table 3).
⁶ QM = Quality Management (score:% of ‘yes answers’ from 3 items) (Table 3).
⁷ SD = Standard Deviation
* Scores significantly deviating from the mean of all countries (p < 0.0001).
⁺ Score significantly deviating from the mean of all countries (p = <0.01).
↑ Country score higher than the mean score of all countries.
↓ Country score lower than the mean score of all countries.

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