In unadjusted analyses, this only failed to reach significance for one indicator: percentage of patients with diabetes having total cholesterol ≤5 mmol/L (OR 1.01; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.99 to 1.03; P = 0.22) ( Table 2 ).
Only one of ten indicators dependent on prescribing but not adherence displayed better achievement; indicators unrelated to prescribing showed a trend towards higher achievement by dispensing practices.
ORs in the adjusted analyses showed an overall trend towards higher achievement by dispensing practices (only three ORs being <1); ORs were significantly >1 for 13 (48%) indicators and <1 for none (see Supplementary Table S1 for details).