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Table 2 Proportions (%) of patients with important processes of care recorded in electronic medical records.

From: Quality of care for patients with type 2 diabetes in general practice according to patients' ethnic background: a cross-sectional study from Oslo, Norway

Features recorded in EMR

All (n = 1653)

Norwegians (n = 1129)

South Asians (n = 322)

MENA a (n = 81)

East Asians (n = 54)

Others b (n = 67)

p c

HbA1c

94.7

95.2

93.5

91.4

96.3

94.0

0.45

Systolic blood pressure

90.6

92.5

85.7

87.7

85.2

91.0

0.003

S-Cholesterol

94.2

92.3

96.9

95.1

94.4

97.0

0.03

Micro-albuminuria

46.2

46.8

46.9

43.2

50.0

34.3

0.33

Reference to ophthalmologist

60.3

60.4

63.4

49.5

59.3

58.2

0.25

Foot examination

18.0

18.7

18.0

14.8

11.1

14.9

0.54

Smoking habits

59.4

64.0

53.4

42.0

46.3

43.3

<0.001

Body height

47.1

47.5

46.3

53.1

48.1

35.8

0.31

Body weight

56.1

56.8

57.8

53.1

50.0

46.3

0.37

  1. a Patients from Middle East/North Africa.
  2. b Patients from other regions.
  3. c p-values. Chi-squared tests were applied to identify differences between ethnic groups with recorded measurement.