Access to General Practitioners during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal: a nationwide survey of doctors

Table 3 Characterization of participant GPs and comparison to General Practitioners working in Portugal in 2021

	participant GPs	all GPs Portugal (2021) [10, 29, 30]
	%
age, years
≤ 35	19.8	19.4
36–45	44.8	32.8
46–55	12.8	31.8
56-65^a	22.6	31.6
female	68.4	69.5
region
North	42.1	39.0
LTV	19.2	32.9
Centre	33.9	19.1
Alentejo	1.3	4.7
Algarve	3.5	4.3
Family Practice type
‘UCSP’	20.6	35.1
model A	33.0	33.0
model B	46.4	31.9
list size, mean (crude/weighted)
‘UCSP’	1601/2047	1520/2057
model A	1720/2167	1678/2187
model B	1786/2258	1800/2315

GPs General Practitioners, LVT Lisbon and Tagus valley, ‘UCSP’ Family Practices on a salaried-only scheme; Model A: Family Practices on a salaried-only scheme but working to reach pay-for-performance and capitation schemes; Model B: Family Practices on a mix of salaried, pay-for-performance and capitation schemes
^aGPs over 65 years old were excluded from the comparison because national data were not comparable, as this age group includes all retired GPs, who were excluded from the study

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