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Table 1 Classification of the answers to the question of interest

From: The challenge for general practitioners to keep in touch with vulnerable patients during the COVID-19 lockdown: an observational study in France

Question of interest: “Did you take the initiative to contact by phone some of your patients (e.g. vulnerable, with chronic diseases)?”

Possible answers

Number of respondents (n = 3030)

Three categories

Dichotomous variable

“No, I did not call any patient”

761

“No initiative”

No

“Yes, the ones I thought about”

1416

“Yes, without criteria-based strategy”

Yes

“Yes, I made a list using some criteria (e.g. patients with 100% coverage by the French national insurance due to a chronic disease, body mass index)”

730

“Yes, with criteria-based strategy”

“Other, please specify”

123

Classified into one of the previous three categories*

Not concerned

  1. *no initiative: n = 24; yes, without strategy: n = 3; yes, with strategy: n = 78. missing data: n = 18