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Table 3 Characterisation of the country clusters

From: Primary care practitioners' priorities for improving the timeliness of cancer diagnosis in primary care: a European cluster-based analysis

Dependent Variable

ANOVA

Bonferroni post-hoc test

 

p

Comparison between clusters

p

Lower Bound

Upper Bound

Access to tests

0.010*

1

2

0.030*

1.03

23.79

3

0.044*

0.45

37.08

PCP knowledge skills and attitudes

0.855

1

2

1.000

-15.50

10.87

3

1.000

-24.67

17.75

Patient and population issues

0.070

1

2

0.132

-15.39

1.54

3

1.000

-10.87

16.36

Access to specialists

0.014*

1

2

0.090

-1.43

24.92

3

0.026*

2.44

44.83

Screening

 < 0.001*

1

2

0.000*

-24.40

-8.85

3

0.004*

-30.86

-5.84

PCP workload

0.366

1

2

0.492

-2.67

9.09

3

1.000

-7.49

11.42

Finances, quotas & limits

 < 0.001*

1

2

1.000

-7.63

4.41

3

0.000*

-45.49

-26.12

Guidelines and protocols

0.331

1

2

1.000

-4.59

5.23

3

0.448

-3.42

12.37

PCP and practice issues

0.431

1

2

0.953

-3.14

7.08

3

0.854

-4.81

11.62

Not a problem/good enough/can't be made quicker

0.239

1

2

0.480

-2.95

10.19

3

0.570

-5.16

15.97

PCP/specialist relationship

0.229

1

2

0.621

-6.91

2.35

3

1.000

-5.25

9.65

Prevention

0.090

1

2

0.181

-8.18

1.13

3

0.285

-12.46

2.52

  1. *p < 0.05