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Table 1 General practitioners' characteristics

From: Predictive ability of an early diagnostic guess in patients presenting with chest pain; a longitudinal descriptive study

Characteristics

Network of GPs

N = 57*

Age

 

   30-39 yrs

11 (19.3%)

   40-49 yrs

22 (38.6%)

   50-59 yrs

24 (42.1%)

Gender

 

   Male

49 (86.0%)

   Female

8 (14.0%)

Years of experience

 

   5-10 yrs

24 (42.1%)

   11-20 yrs

26 (45.6%)

   >20 yrs

7 (12.3%)

Number of patients included

 

   < 10

25 (43.9%)

   10-19

25 (43.9%)

   ≥ 20

7 (12.2%)

Location

 

   Urban

36 (63%)

   Rural

21 (37%)

  1. * Supervised residents (n = 6) from the academic outpatient department are not included in this description. Residents attended to 26 patients. Five of them were women; all were below 40 years of age and had less than 10 yrs of experience.
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