| |
Total
|
Non-prescriber
|
Prescriber
|
p-value
|
|---|
|
N = 7927
|
n = 4965 (62.6)
|
n = 2962 (37.4)
|
|---|
|
n (%)
|
n (%)
|
n (%)
|
|---|
|
Specialists
| | | |
< 0.001a
|
|
Family doctors
|
2266 (28.6)
|
1395 (28.1)
|
871 (29.4)
| |
|
General practitioners
|
4802 (60.6)
|
2970 (59.8)
|
1832 (61.9)
| |
|
Internal medicine
|
144 (1.8)
|
118 (2.4)
|
26 (0.9)
| |
|
Cardiologists
|
357 (4.5)
|
147 (3.0)
|
210 (7.1)
| |
|
Pneumologists
|
144 (1.8)
|
142 (2.9)
|
2 (0.1)
| |
|
Angiologists
|
34 (0.4)
|
31 (0.6)
|
3 (0.1)
| |
|
Nephrologists
|
180 (2.3)
|
162 (3.3)
|
18 (0.6)
| |
|
Sex
| | | |
< 0.001a
|
|
Male
|
4884 (61.6)
|
2856 (57.5)
|
2028 (68.5)
| |
|
Female
|
3043 (38.4)
|
2109 (42.5)
|
934 (31.5)
|
|
Age, years (mean, SD)
|
55.41 (9.0)
|
55.55 (8.9)
|
55.39 (9.1)
|
0.34b
|
|
Location (n = 7917)
| | | |
< 0.001a
|
|
Rural
|
3501 (44.2)
|
2052 (41.4)
|
1449 (48.9)
| |
|
Urban
|
4416 (55.8)
|
2904 (58.6)
|
11512 (51.1)
|
|
Family doctor-centred care
| | | |
< 0.001a
|
|
No
|
4338 (54.7)
|
3057 (61.6)
|
1281 (43.2)
| |
|
Yes
|
3589 (45.3)
|
1908 (38.4)
|
1681 (56.8)
|
|
Disease management programme
| | | |
< 0.001a
|
|
No
|
1675 (21.1)
|
1393 (28.1)
|
282 (9.5)
| |
|
Yes
|
6252 (78.9)
|
3572 (71.9)
|
2680 (90.5)
|
- aChi-squared test; bWilcoxon’s rank-sum test
