Table 1.

Average number of work hours, duration of consultations, and job satisfaction score of GPs in 33 countries (standard deviation)

	GPs in QUALICOPC database (n)	Work hours per week	Duration of consultations in minutes	Job satisfaction score
Austria	184	43.7 (12.5)	11.7 (12.4)	2.44 (.30)
Belgium	408	51.1 (13.1)	17.7 (5.9)	2.59 (.27)
Bulgaria	223	39.2 (13.5)	17.6 (6.0)	2.44 (.28)
Canada	792	40.4 (11.8)	14.8 (9.2)	2.77 (.30)
Cyprus	71	37.5 (5.8)	18.3 (9.0)	2.81 (.21)
Czech Republic	291	36.2 (8.9)	10.9 (4.8)	2.49 (.23)
Denmark	212	40.9 (7.3)	14.3 (2.1)	2.97 (.27)
England	171	40.1 (10.5)	11.2 (2.1)	2.49 (.32)
Estonia	137	37.8 (10.0)	16.4 (3.8)	2.27 (.23)
Finland	288	35.8 (7.6)	23.8 (6.3)	2.59 (.30)
FYR Macedonia	143	40.8 (3.1)	13.4 (4.8)	2.35 (.26)
Germany	238	49.6 (9.7)	10.6 (4.0)	2.45 (.28)
Greece	220	38.2 (11.2)	14.7 (6.3)	2.62 (.28)
Hungary	222	37.7 (8.6)	8.2 (5.5)	2.17 (.31)
Iceland	80	39.8 (7.0)	19.2 (2.7)	2.50 (.28)
Ireland	169	41.2 (10.4)	12.8 (3.3)	2.60 (.28)
Italy	218	33.5 (12.9)	13.4 (4.0)	2.37 (.30)
Latvia	218	38.9 (9.8)	17.5 (6.6)	2.36 (.23)
Lithuania	225	35.2 (9.3)	15.9 (4.2)	2.27 (.27)
Luxembourg	78	45.6 (11.9)	17.6 (5.0)	2.71 (.23)
Malta	70	46.3 (13.2)	13.0 (4.2)	2.47 (.35)
Netherlands	238	43.0 (10.0)	11.1 (1.7)	2.63 (.25)
New Zealand	168	36.8 (10.5)	14.9 (3.9)	2.68 (.31)
Norway	198	36.1 (10.1)	18.6 (2.8)	2.75 (.27)
Poland	220	38.4 (7.6)	13.7 (5.1)	2.41 (.27)
Portugal	216	40.2 (4.5)	18.1 (6.6)	2.41 (.25)
Romania	220	35.8 (8.0)	16.6 (5.1)	2.38 (.28)
Slovakia	220	37.4 (8.7)	8.9 (3.5)	2.23 (.31)
Slovenia	207	37.4 (6.6)	9.6 (3.1)	2.29 (.27)
Spain	428	35.8 (4.3)	8.5 (4.5)	2.15 (.28)
Sweden	97	34.4 (9.7)	23.9 (5.5)	2.73 (.30)
Switzerland	199	46.5 (11.6)	19.5 (5.8)	2.70 (.28)
Turkey	299	40.8 (4.1)	9.3 (5.6)	2.30 (.28)