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Table 5 Physician clinic hours reduction plans and experience of professional dissatisfaction by age and specialty*

From: An estimate of the cost of burnout on early retirement and reduction in clinical hours of practicing physicians in Canada

Age group

Specialty

Dissatisfied

Not dissatisfied

Test statistic

P-value

Plan to reduce clinic hours

No plan to reduce clinic hours

Plan to reduce clinic hours

No plan to reduce clinic hours

<45 yrs

FP

10.69%

89.31%

5.72%

94.28%

X 2(1) = 3.98

0.04

Surgeons

0

100

0

100

X 2(1) = 1.12

0.29

Other specialists

9.17

90.83

5.72

94.28

X 2(1) = 1.60

0.21

45-54 yrs

FP

13.46%

86.54%

7.04%

92.96%

X 2(1) = 6.99

<0.01

Surgeons

27.35

72.65

7.54

92.46

X 2(1) = 4.62

0.04

Other specialists

10.79

89.21

7.89

92.11

X 2(1) = 0.93

0.33

55-64 yrs

FP

13.45%

86.55%

6.63%

93.37%

X 2(1) = 5.65

0.02

Surgeons

30.83

69.17

16.17

83.83

X 2(1) = 1.12

0.29

Other specialists

12.58

87.42

10.42

89.58

X 2(1) = 0.29

0.60

  1. *Source: NPS 2007.