Reference group | CME-M group | |||
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Practices, N (proportion of study base %) | 199 (82.9%) | 139 (93.9%) | ||
Proportion of solo practices (95% CI) | 0.53 (0.46;0.60) | 0.26 (0.19;0.35) | ||
GPs per practice, mean (range) | 1.85 (1–5) | 2.66 (1–10) | ||
GPs, N | 369 | 370 | ||
Proportion of males (95% CI) | 0.57 (0.52;0.62) | 0.47 (0.42;0.53) | ||
Mean age (95% CI) | 52.1 (51.2;53.0) | 51.4 (50.6;52.2) | ||
Total referred patients during 8 months (age ≥ 40 yrs.) | Before CME-M, N = 5,749 | After CME-M, N = 4,607 | Before CME-M, N = 4,935 | After CME-M, N = 5,303 |
Proportion of males (95% CI) | 0.46 (0.45;0.47) | 0.45 (0.44;0.47) | 0.44 (0.43;0.46) | 0.44 (0.43;0.46) |
Mean age (95% CI) | 62.8 (62.5;63.1) | 63.0 (62.6;63.4) | 62.5 (62.1;62.8) | 62.8 (62.5;63.2) |
Comorbidity (%) | ||||
None | 75.3 | 74.7 | 75.8 | 74.8 |
Medium | 20.7 | 21.3 | 19.9 | 21.2 |
High | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 3.9 |
Referred patients with known primary care intervals (age ≥ 40 yrs.) (Response (%)) | Before CME-M, N = 1,227 (21.3%) | After CME-M, N = 753 (16.3%) | Before CME-M, N = 990 (20.0%) | After CME-M, N = 1,102 (20.8%) |
Proportion of males (95% CI) | 0.52 (0.49;0.55) | 0.54 (0.50;0.57) | 0.48 (0.45;0.51) | 0.47 (0.44;0.50) |
Mean age (95% CI) | 64.9 (64.2;65.6) | 64.5 (63.6;65.3) | 64.5 (63.8;65.3) | 64.8 (64.1;65.5) |
Comorbiditya (%) | ||||
None | 76.7 | 75.4 | 76.1 | 75.6 |
Medium | 19.7 | 20.2 | 20.1 | 21.0 |
High | 3.6 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 3.4 |
Cancer detection difficultyb (%) | ||||
Easier to detect | 72.2 | 68.4 | 69.2 | 70.2 |
Harder to detect | 23.1 | 25.4 | 26.4 | 24.9 |
Missing information | 4.6 | 6.2 | 4.4 | 4.9 |