Table 1.
Healthcare professional characteristics
| Profession |
Gender |
Ethnicity |
Year of professional qualification |
Prescribing rights |
BMQ-General score |
Practice size |
Indices of multiple deprivation (quartiles) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary care physician | Practice nurse | Male | Female | White British | Other | 1960–1969 | 1970–1979 | 1980–1989 | 1990–1999 | 2000–2009 | Prescribers | Non- prescribers | Low (8–15) | Medium (16–22) | High (23–40) | Small (1–2 full-time equivalent primary care physician) | Medium (3–4 full-time equivalent primary care physician) | Large (5≥ full-time equivalent primary care physician) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 11 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5 |