| Those responding and agreeing to being intervieweda | ||||
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| Sex | Primary care (380)b | Secondary care (181)c | ||
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| Urban (61) | Rural (319) | Urban (141) | Rural (40) | |
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| Male (309) | 3 (24) | 2 (155) | 5 (102) | 3 (28) |
| Female (252) | 3 (37) | 2 (164) | 2 (39) | 2 (12) |
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| Those not responding to invite | ||||
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| Sex | Primary care | Secondary care | ||
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| Urban | Rural | Urban | Rural | |
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| Male | – | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| Female | – | 4 | 4 | 3 |
a
No invited clinicians responded to say they would not like to be interviewed.
b
Numbers in brackets throughout denote potential pool.
c
Specialties represented included emergency medicine, general medicine, general surgery, neurology, ophthalmology, paediatrics, and psychiatry. Of the 22 clinician interviews, 13 were telephone interviews and nine were face-to-face. The average duration of each interview was 27 minutes and 32 seconds.