Table 1.

Details about focus group participants and composition (n = 32).

Focus Group	Number of Vets	Male	Female	Predefined Criteria of Selection	Working Place (Federal State)
1	7	3	4	▪Specialists at university hospital ▪Capital city (Vienna) ▪Well-equipped clinic ▪High number of colleagues	Vienna
2	5	3	2	▪Manager director of corporate clinic/private clinic owners ▪Urban region/provincial cities ▪Well-equipped referral clinic ▪5–18 employed veterinarians	Vienna, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Vorarlberg, Styria region
3	4	1	3	▪Specialists at referral clinics ▪Provincial cities ▪Well-equipped clinic ▪Number colleagues > 3	Vienna, Lower Austria, Salzburg land, Vorarlberg
4	6	4	2	▪General practitioners ▪Capital city (Vienna) ▪Small practices with basic equipment ▪Self-employed (with 1–2 colleagues)	Vienna
5	5	1	4	▪General practitioners ▪Provincial cities/rural region ▪Small practices with basic equipment ▪Self-employed (with 1–2 colleagues)	Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Burgenland, Styria region
6	5	3	21	▪General practitioners ▪Provincial cities/rural region ▪Small practices with basic equipment ▪Self-employed (with one colleague)	Carinthia, Salzburg land, Tyrol, Vorarlberg region

¹ One of the female participants in Group 6 worked as a specialist at a referral clinic. She was wrongly invited to the focus group discussion among general practitioners due to the poorly maintained website which was accessed via the classified directory. This misclassification has been taken into consideration in the analysis and presentation of results in the present paper.