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Table 1 Characteristics of the participants

From: ‘It just has to click’: Internists’ views of: what constitutes productive interactions with chronically ill patients

Characteristics

Number included (% of total staff)

Sub-discipline:

 

 Generalists:

10 (26 %)

  Elderly medicine/Geriatrics

4 (11 %)

  General internal medicine

6 (16 %)

 Subspecialists:

10 (26 %)

  Endocrinology

5 (13 %)

  Nephrology

5 (13 %)

Gender:

 

 Men

12 (32 %)

 Women

8 (21 %)

Age (and gender division):

 

 34–41 years (5 women, 4 men)

9 (24 %)

 45–61 years (3 women, 8 men)

11 (29 %)