Physician participation in quality improvement work- interest and opportunity: a cross-sectional survey

BMC Primary Care

Table 1 Sample, number of respondents, response rates and job positions for respondents for whom we have data on gender and age (< 70 years) in 2018–2019

	2018–2019
Sample, n	2 085
Respondents, n	1 513
Response rate, %	72.6
Job positions	n (females %)
All^a	1 289 (53.9)
Doctors in hospital management^b and doctors in administrative position^c	110 (33.6)
Senior hospital consultants	379 (50.4)
Specialty registrars	370 (71.9)
GPs and community medical officers^d	306 (48.7)
Specialists in private practice	56 (33.9)
Doctors in academia^d	68 (48.5)

^aInterns (n = 17), doctors in other job positions (n = 77) and missing data (n = 129) were excluded
^bMedical superintendent, head of department, chief senior consultant, head of the unit, senior consultant, head of section
^cDistrict medical officer, senior district medical officer, nursing home medical officer, visiting medical officer, physician at infant welfare clinic
^dProfessor, associate professor, research fellow, researcher

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