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Table 5 Percentage of patients classified as having chronic (≥ 3 months) or acute (< 3 months) tinnitus, split by each country, and reported separately for each professional group.

From: Treatment options for subjective tinnitus: Self reports from a sample of general practitioners and ENT physicians within Europe and the USA

	GP profession		ENT profession
Country	Chronic [%]	Acute [%]	Chronic [%]	Acute [%]
US	50	50	69	31
UK	68	32	81	19
Germany	66	34	53	47
France	59	41	71	29
Spain	49	51	72	28
Italy	61	39	66	34

Data are reported only for those physicians who saw at least one tinnitus patient in the past three months.

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