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Table 4 Unadjusted and adjusted intervention effects

From: Printed educational materials directed at Ontario family physicians do not improve adherence to guideline recommendations for diabetes management: a pragmatic, factorial, cluster randomized controlled trial [ISRCTN72772651]

Intervention

OR (95% CI)

P value

Regression model 1a: unadjusted effect of insert and outsert (primary outcome)

 Outsert

1.01 (0.98, 1.04)

0.74

 Insert

0.99 (0.96, 1.02)

0.50

Regression model 1b: effect of insert and outsert, adjusted for physician characteristics

 Outsert

1.00 (0.97, 1.03)

0.77

 Insert

0.99 (0.96, 1.02)

0.58

Physician characteristics

 Physician age (per 10 years)

1.00 (0.97, 1.04)

0.94

 Sex (reference is male)

1.08 (1.03, 1.12)

< 0.0001

 Canadian medical graduate (reference is no)

0.93 (0.89, 0.97)

< 0.0001

 Years in practice (per 10 years)

0.96 (0.91, 0.99)

0.03

 Total visits (per 100 visits)

1.00 (1.00, 1.00)

0.23

 Total billings (per $10,000)

1.00 (1.00, 1.00)

0.10

 Practice location (reference is Southern)

0.97 (0.91, 1.03)

0.32

 Rural practice (reference is no)

0.99 (0.94, 1.03)

0.55

Regression model 2: unadjusted effect of insert and outsert (secondary outcome)

 Outsert

1.01 (0.98, 1.04)

0.60

 Insert

0.99 (0.96, 1.02)

0.64