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Table 2 Trial outcomes

From: Promoting prompt help-seeking for symptoms – assessing the impact of a gynaecological cancer leaflet on presentations to primary care: a record-based randomised control trial

Primary outcomes

Intervention

Control

Difference (control-intervention)

Proportion presenting

231/7799 (3.0%)

207/7739 (2.7%)

RR = 1.11, 95%CI 0.92–1.33; p = 0.28

Time to presentation, Mean, 95% CI

57.2 (53.4–62.0)

65.2 (60.3–70.1)

8 days; t = −2.42, p = 0.02

Secondary outcomes

 Proportion referred

66/7799 (0.8%)

51/7739 (0.7%)

RR = 1.28, 95%CI 0.89–1.85; p = 0.18

 Time to referral Mean, 95% CI

57.1 (48.0–66.1)

67.7 (57.4–78.0)

10.6 days; t = −1.53, p = 0.13

Other

 Cancers diagnoseda

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  1. aThe numbers of cancers diagnosed was not compared statistically due to the small numbers