Table 3.
Respondent characteristics
| Physicians (N = 656) | |
| Characteristics | |
| Age, years | 28–82 (mean 51) |
| Years in practice | 1–62 (mean 25) |
| Male | 546 (85%) |
| Specialty | |
| Family medicine | 195 (30%) |
| General medicine | 188 (29%) |
| Internal medicine | 179 (28%) |
| Country of practice | |
| Italy | 139 (21%) |
| Norway | 222 (34%) |
| Switzerland | 183 (28%) |
| UK | 112 (17%) |
| Primary practice site | |
| Hospital | 258 (38%) |
| Solo practice | 182 (28%) |
| Primary care group practice | 164 (25%) |
| Multi-specialty group | 23 (4%) |
| Other | 28 (4%) |
| Admitting hospital | |
| Public | 572 (94%) |
| Private | 21 (3%) |
| For-profit | 81 (17%) |
| Not-for-profit | 406 (82%) |
| Teaching hospital | 264 (46%) |
Numbers in parentheses are percentages of the sample shown exclusive of missing data, and rounded to the nearest whole number