Table 1 Referral rates in the different practices.
| N (rate per million per month) | City: control | City: TIA training | North: control | South and West: TIA training | Pooled significance† | Combined odds ratio estimate | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (rate) | Standardised rate | N (rate) | Standardised rate | N (rate) | Standardised rate | N (rate) | Standardised rate | |||
| Diagnosis of TIA | ||||||||||
| Before (27 months) | 29 (13) | (19) | 39 (22) | (25) | 113 (45) | (38) | 124 (30) | (27) | 0.089 | 1.33 |
| After (19 months) | 13 (8) | (12) | 31 (25) | (28) | 107 (61) | (48) | 147 (51) | (45) | ||
| Diagnosis not TIA | ||||||||||
| Before (27 months) | 9 (4) | (9) | 12 (7) | (8) | 40 (16) | (14) | 47 (11) | (12) | 0.054 | 1.82 |
| After (19 months) | 2 (1) | (3) | 12 (9) | (11) | 23 (13) | (11) | 42 (14) | (14) | ||
| Total referrals | ||||||||||
| Before (27 months) | 38 (17) | (28) | 51 (28) | (34) | 153 (61) | (51) | 171 (41) | (38) | 0.018 | 1.41 |
| After (19 months) | 15 (10) | (15) | 43 (34) | (39) | 130 (74) | (59) | 189 (65) | (60) | ||
†Mantel‐Haenzel χ2 test.