Table 1.

 Practice and patient characteristics (n = 284 practices and n = 9248 patients from 10 countries)

	Overall mean (lowest–highest means per country)
Practice characteristics
Percentage of female GPs	35.2% (15.0–64.0)
Mean age of physicians (in years)	46.6 (43.5–49.1)
Mean number of GP hours worked per week (hours)	43.0 (30.6–53.7)
Number of general practitioners (categories: 1, 2, 3–4, ≥5)	2.0 (1.1–3.2)
Number of care providers (categories: 2–4, 5–10, ≥10)	1.8 (1.1–2.9)
Urbanization level (village = 1, town/city = 2)	1.6 (1.4–2.0)
Patient characteristics
Patient evaluations of practice management (aggregated mean value, 1 = poor, 5 = excellent)	4.2 (3.9–4.6)
Percentage women	61.5% (56.0–67.0)
Mean age (in years)	49.8 (45.8–55.6)