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Table 1 Characteristics of participating family doctors and practices

From: Testing a single item screener to support family doctors in identifying patients with limited health literacy: convergent validity of the SILS and the HLS-EU-Q16

Family doctors (n = 14)

n

%

Sex

 Male

9

64.3

 Female

5

Participating practices (n = 8)

 Number of patients enrolleda

  ≥ 500–1000

1

14.3

  > 1000–1500

3

42.9

  > 1500–2000

2

28.6

  > 2000

1

14.3

 Type

  Single practice

3

37.5

  Group practice

5

62.5

 Location

  Metro

6

75.0

  Urban

2

25.0

  1. aData for one practice is missing