Table 1.
Non-contract and contract physicians in Austria.
| Year | Number of physicians |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSP | PGP | CSP | CGP | Sum | |
| 2002 | 3675 | 1560 | 3940 | 4289 | 13,464 |
| 2003 | 4013 | 1730 | 3924 | 4258 | 13,925 |
| 2004 | 4200 | 1792 | 3925 | 4261 | 14,178 |
| 2005 | 4612 | 2015 | 3932 | 4246 | 14,805 |
| 2006 | 4875 | 2046 | 3925 | 4217 | 15,063 |
| 2007 | 5025 | 2088 | 3918 | 4194 | 15,225 |
| 2008 | 5139 | 2115 | 3896 | 4165 | 15,315 |
| Average | 4506 | 1907 | 3923 | 4233 | 14,569 |
| Change 2002–2008 (in percent) | 28.49 | 26.24 | −1.12 | −2.98 | 12.09 |
| Average annual change (in percent) | 5.79 | 5.30 | −0.19 | −0.49 | 2.18 |
PSP, non-contract specialist; PGP, non-contract general practitioner; CSP, contract specialist; CGP, contract general practitioner.