Table 3

Quarterly means, standard deviations (s.d), correlations among patient-level SQUIDs

Quarter
Mean1 (s.d.) patient-level SQUID (n = 212,054)
Mean2 (s.d.) patient-level SQUID [n]
Mean (s.d.) practice-level SQUID (n = 85)

Third quarter 2004
40.0% (20.1%)
35.1% (20.7%) [324,595]
34.8% (10.9%)
Fourth quarter 2004
41.3% (19.9%)
34.8% (20.8%) [355,381]
35.1% (10.6%)
First quarter 2005
42.5% (19.8%)
35.5% (21.0%) [360,682]
36.1% (10.5%)
Second quarter 2005
43.3% (19.7%)
36.4% (21.0%) [362,712]
37.0% (10.5%)
Third quarter 2005
43.6% (19.8%)
38.3% (21.0%) [330,966]
38.6% (10.6%)

1 Mean SQUID among 212,054 patients active throughout entire study period

2 Mean SQUID among patients active during the quarter of interest

Nietert et al. Implementation Science 2007 2:11   doi:10.1186/1748-5908-2-11

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