Table 2 Compliance with best practice recommendations in the different practices.
N (%) complying with best practice recommendations | City: control | City: TIA programme | Standardised difference in % (TIA – AF) | North: control | SW: TIA programme | Standardised difference in % (trained – untrained) | Pooled significance† | Combined odds ratio (95% CI) |
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Total n | 15 | 43 | ∗ | 130 | 187 | ∗ | ∗ | ∗ |
Driving advice | 12 (80.0%) | 35 (81.4%) | 0.1% | 75 (57.7%) | 133 (71.1%) | 13.3% | 0.010 | 1.9 (1.2 to 3.2) |
Antiplatelet drugs | 11 (73.3%) | 37 (86.0%) | 15.4% | 120 (92.3%) | 167 (89.3%) | −3.7% | 0.714 | 0.9 (0.4 to 1.8) |
Both recommendations | 8 (53.3%) | 29 (67.4%) | 15.5% | 70 (53.8%) | 122 (65.2%) | 11.3% | 0.016 | 1.8 (1.1 to 2.8) |
∗Standardised or adjusted for age and sex.
†Mantel‐Haenzel χ2 test.