Identifying strategies to maximise recruitment and retention of practices and patients in a multicentre randomised controlled trial of an intervention to optimise secondary prevention for coronary heart disease in primary care

Table 3 Patient non participant data

Variable	Participants (n = 903)	Non Participants (n = 772)	P	Difference [95% CI]
Male	69.9% (n = 631/903)	62.5% (n = 475/760)	0.001	7.4 [2.8, 11.9]
GMS (RoI only)	77.8% (n = 452/581)	81.7% (n = 313/383)	0.141	-3.9 [-8.9, 1.3]
Age [Mean (SD)]	67.480 (9.6) (total n = 903)	67.477 (10.7) (total n = 730)	0.995	0.003 [-0.998, 1.005]

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