Table III.

Relationship between the proportion of physicians who delivered CVD and COPD prevention interventions and the rate of contract completion

Prevention programme	Spearman's rank correlation coefficient for family physicians (rho)	Spearman's rank correlation coefficient for internists (rho)	Spearman's rank correlation coefficient for paediatricians (rho)	Spearman's rank correlation coefficient for other physicians (rho)
CVD	0.190 (p >0.05)	0.001 (p >0.05)	−0.085 (p >0.05)	0.018 (p >0.05)
COPD basic level	0.283 (p >0.05)	−0.249 (p >0.05)	0.071 (p > 0.05)	−0.184 (p >0.05)
COPD extended level	0.262 (p >0.05)	0.002 (p >0.05)	−0.260 (p >0.05)	−0.461 (p <0.05)
All programmes combined*	0.258 (p <0.03)	−0.109 (p >0.05)	−0.107 (p >0.05)	−0.234 (p >0.05

^*Correlation for three programmes combined (CVD; COPD, basic level; COPD, extended)