Table 2.
Characteristics of the survey participants (n=214) and target population57
| Variables | No. of respondents (%) |
Target population (%) |
| Gender | ||
| Male | 121 (56.5) | 5882 (55.0) |
| Female | 93 (43.5) | 4804 (45.0) |
| Age (years) | ||
| <30 | 22 (10.3) | |
| 30–40 | 68 (31.8) | |
| 41–50 | 64 (29.9) | |
| 51–60 | 50 (23.4) | |
| >60 | 10 (4.7) | |
| Specialism | ||
| Anaesthesiology | 55 (25.7) | 2307 (21.6) |
| Colon, stomach and liver | 19 (8.9) | 734 (6.9) |
| Gynaecology | 29 (13.6) | 1436 (13.4) |
| Internal medicine | 43 (20.1) | 3148 (29.5) |
| Neurology | 20 (9.3) | 1295 (12.1) |
| Surgery | 34 (15.9) | 1766 (16.5) |
| Other | 14 (6.5) | |
| Grade | ||
| Physician | 160 (74.8) | 7936 (74.3) |
| Resident | 54 (25.2) | 2750 (25.7) |
| Workplace | ||
| General hospital | 132 (61.7) | |
| Academic hospital | 78 (36.4) | |
| Other workplace | 4 (1.9) | |
| Employment form | ||
| Employed | 119 (55.6) | |
| Self-employed | 95 (44.4) | |
| Litigation experience | ||
| Yes | 34 (15.9) | |
| No | 180 (84.1) | |
| Formal measures after litigation (of n=34 with litigation experience) | ||
| Yes | 4 (11.8) | |
| No | 30 (88.2) | |