Table 3.

Proportions of GPs (n=1,308) that would like to spend more versus less time on common activities in general practice¹

Activity	Would like to spend more time	Would like to spend less time
Follow up of chronic somatic diseases	57%	2%
(e.g. COPD, heart disease, diabetes)
Recent everyday symptoms and complaints	46%	3%
(e.g. infections, lumbago, tendinitis, head ache, dyspnea, chest pain, abdominal pain, etc.)
Follow up of chronic psychiatric diseases	29%	6%
(e.g. schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, anxiety/depression)
Terminal care	16%	1%
Teaching and supervision of students and residents	17%	2%
Risk conditions	22%	8%
(elevated blood pressure or cholesterol, low bone mass density)
Research	14%	5%
Meetings regarding individual patients	12%	6%
Nursing home medicine	10%	6%
Quality assurance	13%	13%
(e.g. development and maintenance of guidelines/procedures)
Emergency health care	12%	14%
(e.g. trauma/accidents, acute, serious somatic and psychiatric diseases)
School health service	2%	10%
Preventive health clinics	2%	10%
Meetings with local health authorities	6%	17%
Psychosocial problems	7%	19%
(e.g. marital crises, conflicts at work)
Follow up of persons certified unfit for work	8%	27%
Drug abuse/addiction medicine	6%	26%
Medically unexplained symptoms	5%	28%
(e.g. chronic fatigue, chronic pain syndroms)
Practice administration/management	7%	30%
(e.g. human resource management, bookkeeping, etc.)
Health certifications	0%	50%

¹ Among the activities listed, the GPs chose 3 activities they would like to spend less time on and 3 activities they would like to spend more time on.