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Table 3 Numbers of patients eligible for CVD risk assessment, numbers assessed and numbers identified as eligible for drug treatments

From: The Sandwell Project: A controlled evaluation of a programme of targeted screening for prevention of cardiovascular disease in primary care

Practice

Eligible for CVD risk assessment*

CVD risk calculated (% of those eligible for assessment)

Identified as eligible for aspirin (% of those eligible for assessment)

Identified as eligible for antihypertensive (% of those eligible for assessment)

Identified as eligible for statin (% of those eligible for assessment)

Identified as eligible for at least one treatment (% of those eligible for assessment)

PN1

103

60 (58.3%)

40 (38.8%)

22 (21.4%)

43 (41.7%)

44 (42.7%)

PN2

128

m (69.5%)

65 (50.8%)

29 (22.7%)

69 (53.9%)

70 (54.7%)

PN3

164

88 (53.7%)

70 (42.7%)

52 (31.7%)

76 (46.3%)

m (46.3%)

PN4

203

133 (65.5%)

98 (48.3%)

m (33.0%)

105 (51.7%)

107 (52.7%)

All project nurse practices

598

m (61.9%)

273 (45.7%)

170 (28.4%)

293 (49.0%)

297 (49.7%)

Info1

175

75 (42.9%)

51 (29.1%)

36 (20.6%)

57 (32.6%)

57 (32.6%)

Info2

288

54 (18.8%)

38 (13.2%)

22 (7.6%)

43 (14.9%)

43 (14.9%)

All information only practices

463

129 (27.9%)

89 (19.2%)

58 (12.5%)

100 (21.6%)

100 (21.6%)

All practices

1061

499 (47.0%)

362 (34.1%)

228 (21.5%)

393 (37.0%)

397 (37.4%)

  1. * In project nurse practices these patients were actively invited. In the information only practices they were seen opportunistically when they consulted for other reasons.