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Table 1 Characteristics of participating medical assistants and practice nurses (MNs), GPs and practices compared to all Dutch GPs and practices

From: Patient safety culture measurement in general practice. Clinimetric properties of 'SCOPE'

Characteristics of participants

Study population

(n = 294)

National demographic data

GPs

 

MNs *

(n = 221)

GPs

(n = 73)

GPs

(n = 8766) [37]

Gender

male

1.2

51.4

62.2

 

female

98.8

48.6

37.8

Age (years)

< 39

47.2

19.3

20.9

 

40-49

32.6

27.4

30.7

 

50 and older

20.4

53.4

48.3

Experience

(years of practice)

0- 10

76.9

47.9

60.2

 

11-20

16.7

27.0

21.3

 

21-30

5.2

22.5

15.8

 

More than 30

0.8

3.0

2.8

Working hours (fte)

0-0.4

21.9

9.0

9.4

 

0.5-0.6

43.9

20.9

20.9

 

0.7-0.8

20.8

37.4

15.2

 

0.9-1.0

13.2

33.0

54.5

Practice organisation

solo

19.9

12.4

18.0

 

duo

23.9

23.7

28.2

 

group practice or

health care centre

56.1

63.9

53.8

  1. (Reference data about medical assistants and practice nurses (MNs) are not available; * the figures shown are the distributions found in all MNs that responded to SCOPE in web system (n = 1100). The specific figures of the 221 MNs of this substudy could not be retraced.)