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Table 1 Investigated population

From: The federal government commissioner for patient issues in Germany: initial analysis of the user inquiries

sex (n = 806)

  
 

n

%

men

410

50.9

women

396

49.1

age (n = 186) *

  

80 years and older

22

11.8

70–79

44

23.7

60–69

63

33.9

50–59

25

13.4

40–49

17

9.1

30–39

10

5.4

20–29

1

0.5

19 years and younger

4

2.2

  1. The absolute age of the inquirers could only be determined in 186 cases. In 301 other cases the inquirers could be assigned with high probability to the group of the older population, for example due to phrasings such as "I am a pensioner" or "I am an old woman".