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Multivariate regression analysis of associations between general practitioner prescribing rates for coronary heart disease drugs and healthcare needs indicators
  1. Paul R Ward1,
  2. Peter R Noyce2,
  3. Antony S St Leger3
  1. 1Section of Public Health, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
  2. 2School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
  3. 3Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, University of Manchester
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr P R Ward
 Section of Public Health, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 30 Regent Street, Sheffield S1 4DA, UK; p.r.wardsheffield.ac.uk

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    A recent paper in the journal by the authors presented the results of bivariate correlations between prescribing rates for coronary heart disease (CHD) drugs and healthcare needs indicators (HCNIs).1 This paper added further weight to the suggestion that GP practice prescribing rates for statins are inequitable,2–5 although we also provided evidence for a range of other CHD drugs.

    One of the letters to the journal suggested that a multivariate analysis would have helped to determine the independent associations between prescribing rates and …

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