Table 4: Proportions of patients within practices with at least 1 registered nurse who met recommended targets for diabetes management indicators, across quartiles of patients with diabetes per registered nurse.
| Variable | Management indicator | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hemoglobin A1c | Fasting blood glucose | Blood pressure | Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol | Urine albumin: creatinine ratio | |
| No. of patients | 2372 | 1378 | 1916 | 2036 | 826 |
| Patients per registered nurse, no. (%), quartile | |||||
| Q1: ≤ 90 patients | 744 (31.4)* | 346 (25.1)* | 552 (28.8) | 611 (30.0) | 204 (24.7) |
| Q2: 91-152 patients | 906 (38.2) | 567 (41.1) | 635 (33.1) | 751 (36.9) | 366 (44.3) |
| Q3: 153-310 patients | 482 (20.3) | 315 (22.9)* | 282 (14.7)† | 430 (21.1)* | 153 (18.5) |
| Q4: ≥ 311 patients | 240 (10.1) | 150 (10.9) | 447 (23.3) | 244 (12.0) | 103 (12.5) |
| F-test | 4.02 | 2.94 | 9.27 | 2.95 | 2.46 |
| p value | < 0.01 | 0.03 | < 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.06 |
*p < 0.05 for difference with Q4 (analysis of variance).
†p < 0.05 for difference with all other quartiles (analysis of variance).