Table 1.

General Subject Characteristics

Characteristic	Value
No. of medical institutions involved in this survey	67
No. of doctors, median (IQR)	14 (5–15)
No. of nurses, median (IQR)	14 (8–16)
No. of nursing assistants, median (IQR)	3 (1–3)
No. of other members, median (IQR)	1 (1–2)
Specialties of the doctors
Physician+Endoscopic specialist±Family doctor	14
Physicians	13
General surgeon+Endoscopic specialist	1
Endoscopic specialist	39
Mean no. of endoscopies performed/year
10,000 or more	33
5,000–9,999	12
3,000–4,999	5
1,000–2,999	13
500–999	2
<500	2

IQR, interquartile range.