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Table 5 Proportion of physicians agreeing that "My workplace is organized well to facilitate participation in quality improvement work" and “Time is designated in my work-hour schedule to work with quality improvement". The response categories were placed on a linear five-point scale from 1 ("completely disagree") to 5 ("completely agree"). To analyse the percentage of respondents who agreed, response categories were dichotomized into 0 (response categories 1–3) and 1 (response categories 4–5 (agreed))

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

 

My workplace is organized well to facilitate participation in quality improvement work

Time is designated in my work-hour schedule to work with quality improvement

  

Categories 1–3

Categories 4–5

 

Categories 1–3

Categories 4–5

 

n

%

%

n

 

%

All

1274

65.9

34.1

1275

83.3

16.7

Gender

 Male

588

58.2

41.8

589

79.5

20.5

 Female

686

72.6

27.4

686

86.6

13.4

Age in years

  ≤ 35

392

77.8

22.2

392

90.3

9.7

 36–45

327

69.1

30.9

327

85.3

14.7

 46–55

243

56.0

44.0

243

78.2

21.8

 56–69

312

55.4

44.6

313

76.4

23.6

Job positions

 Doctors in hospital management and doctors in administrative position

109

36.7

63.3

109

66.1

33.9

 Senior hospital consultants

374

67.6

32.4

375

82.7

17.3

 Specialty registrars

366

77.0

23.0

366

91.0

9.0

 GPs and community medical officers

304

67.4

32.6

304

83.9

16.1

 Specialists in private practice

55

52.7

47.3

55

81.8

18.2

 Doctors in academia

66

47.0

53.0

66

71.2

28.8