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Table 2 Indicator scores: risk factor recording

From: Cardiovascular risk management in patients with coronary heart disease in primary care: variation across countries and practices. An observational study based on quality indicators

  

Smoking status

Physical activity capacity

Weight/BMI

Blood pressure

Serum cholesterol

Austria

Mean

100↑

50.6

61.4

94.2

95.7↑

 

SD

0

31.2

33.0

7.1

6.0

 

p

.000

.566

.311

.957

.000

Belgium

Mean

76.7

52.6

84.4↑

98.0↑

95.4↑

 

SD

29.0

34.5

15.1

4.2

6.7

 

p

.708

.805

.001

.004

.000

England

Mean

94.8↑

64.1

82.9↑

98.3↑

94.6↑

 

SD

10.0

29.4

22.1

3.4

7.5

 

p

.000

.121

.003

.000

.000

France

Mean

79.4

46.0

90.9↑

96.2

96.4↑

 

SD

21.5

39.6

11.0

7.7

6.7

 

p

.983

.439

.000

.555

.002

Germany

Mean

92.5↑

55.6

65.2

96.3

94.2

 

SD

9.9

41.5

33.3

7.0

8.9

 

p

.001

.933

.662

.462

.016

Netherlands

Mean

57.2↓

41.7

44.6↓

82.0↓

67.2↓

 

SD

28.3

27.7

27.3

15.8

19.5

 

p

.000

.030

.000

.000

.000

Slovenia

Mean

76.5

60.0

70.8

97.4

83.6

 

SD

26.2

29.0

25.0

67

14.4

 

p

.580

.358

.705

.021

.253

Switzerland

Mean

65.4

62.8

71.4

96.6

87.8

 

SD

38.1

34.8

24.4

5.9

10.8

 

p

.162

.323

.727

.324

.830

Total

Mean

79.3

54.6

68.8

94.1

86.9

 

SD

27.5

32.2

28.8

10.4

16.0

  1. Mean practice scores (%) per country and across countries with standardized variation. Scores significantly deviating from the mean of all countries are marked when p<0.01, with p values displayed.