Table 2.

Past reports on the use rate of PPE by physicians.

Authors	Country	Physicians’ Personal Protective Equipment Use Rate (%)
		Personal Passive Dosimeters	Lead Aprons	Lead Glasses	Thyroid Protection Collars
Niklason et al. (1993) [10]	N/A *	40	N/A *	10	47
Tsapaki et al. (2009) [11]	Algeria, Kenya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Lithuania, Moldova, Slovenia, Tajikistan	96	100	73	N/A*
Efstathopoulos et al. (2011) [16]	Greece	N/A *	100	71–83	100
Vanhavere F et al. (2012) [17]	Belgium, Greece, France, Switzerland, Poland, Slovakia	N/A *	98–100	31–36	91–92
Vano et al. (2013) [12]	Argentine Republic	48–52	N/A *	41–52	N/A *
Lynskey III et al. (2013) [18]	N/A *	N/A *	99.4	54.2	94
International Atomic Energy Agency (2014) [13]	Global	70–77	97	24–47	N/A *
Brun et al. (2018) [14]	France	45.7–54.0	88–97.1	0–4	40–62.9
Kunugita (2019) [7]	Japan	17–100	N/A *	N/A *	N/A *
Altintas et al. (2020) [15]	N/A *	17.3	96.2	32.7	80.8

* N/A: not available.