Table 1.

Survey participants by practice and individual general practitioner. Values are numbers of patients unless otherwise indicated

	Patients attending teaching consultations			Patients attending non-teaching consultations
	Questionnaires			Questionnaires
	Issued	Returned	Response rate in %	Issued	Returned	Response rate in %
All patients	240	196	82	409	294	72
Practice 1	43	34	79	80	67	84
Practice 2	49	41	84	77	60	78
Practice 3	52	42	81	62	45	73
Practice 4	53	47	89	109	78	72
Practice 5	43	32	74	81	44	54
General practitioner A	—	20	—	—	46	—
General practitioner B	—	16	—	—	19	—
General practitioner C	—	30	—	—	25	—
General practitioner D	—	21	—	—	39	—
General practitioner E	—	17	—	—	30	—
General practitioner F	—	23	—	—	33	—

Figures for questionnaires issued and returned do not include those completed by excluded patients.

Because some general practitioners worked simultaneously, it was not possible accurately to calculate the response rate for individual general practitioners.

For reasons of confidentiality it is not possible to identify general practitioners within practices. At least one general practitioner from each practice is shown.