Table 1.

Collaborating primary care centers’ characteristics and professionals participation and exposure rates

	Global Group					Sequential Group
	Center 1 A†	Center 2 Zu	Center 3 I	Center 4 P	TOTAL	Center 5 Er	Center 6 Sv	Center 7 Eg	Center 8 Za	Center 9 So	TOTAL
Type of PC	Sub-urban	City center	City center	City center	NA	City center	City center	City center	Town-rural	Town-rural	NA
Deprivation Index of the population, mean	1.5	3.9	3.5	2.9	NA	3.9	3.8	2.8	2.8	2.9	NA
Catchment population, n	15,201	16,552	22,438	14,897	69,088	12,348	17,877	12,948	10,324	7374	60,871
Initial collaboration from the centers’
Physicians, n/total	10/12	13/14	8/15	6/11	37/52	6/7	7/9	6/9	4/5	5/5	28/35
Nurses, n/total	8/12	8/13	14/15	5/11	35/51	7/7	9/9	9/9	4/6	5/5	34/36
Practitioner lists, n	10	12	7	6	35	8	8	9	6	5	36
Exposure rate*
Physicians, %	72%	66%	78%	84%	75%	85%	82%	80%	77%	89%	82.6%
Nurses, %	90%	89%	79%	82%	85%	90%	81%	86%	98%	92%	89.4%
% professionals exposed to 80% of the strategy
Physicians, %	30%	15%	37%	83%	41.2%	33%	37%	14%	25%	80%	37.8%
Nurses, %	62%	75%	43%	60%	60%	86%	55%	55%	75%	80%	70.2%

^† Primary Care centers’ name initials: A Alango, Zu Zuazo, I Iztieta-Errenteria, P Portugalete, Er Erandio, Sv San Vicente, Eg Egia, Za Zalla, So Sodupe

* Exposure rate in physicians is calculated as the percentage of hours pertaining to implementation actions received by the professionals from the total number of action/hours planned, being the total hours 20 h for physicians in the global group and nurses of both group, and 4.5 h for physicians in the Sequential group; Considering all professionals that have been involved as staff turnover has occurred randomly in the course of the process