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Table 2 Patient, GP, and consultation characteristics in the ECOGEN dataset

From: To which non-physician health professionals do French general practitioners refer their patients to and what factors are associated with these referrals? Secondary analysis of the French national cross-sectional ECOGEN study

 

Total (n = 20,613)

Patient Characteristics

 Age: mean (SD)

46.6 (25.7)

 Female: number (%)

11,995 (58.2)

 Socio-occupational category: number (%)

  Employee

3972 (19.3)

  Worker

815 (4.0)

  Other professional activitya

2910 (14.2)

  No professional activityb

6150 (29.8)

  Retired

6766 (32.8)

 Regular patients: number (%)

19,473 (94.5)

General practitioner characteristics

 Age: mean (SD)

53.0 (7.5)

 Female: number (%)

7063 (34.3)

 Location: number (%)

  Rural

4163 (20.2)

  Semi-rural

5266 (25.5)

  Urban

11,184 (54.3)

 Practice type: number (%)

  Solo

4330 (21.0)

  Mono-professional medical group

12,149 (58.9)

  Multiprofessional centres

4134 (20.1)

 Annual number of consultations: mean (SD)

5162 (1749)

Consultation Characteristics

 Mean duration: minutes (SD)

16.7 (8.3)

 Number of consultation results: mean (SD)

2.21 (1.44)

 Number of consultation results during the consultation

  1 consultation result: number (%)

8567 (41.6)

  2 consultation results: number (%)

5644 (27.4)

  3 consultation results: number (%)

3250 (15.8)

  4 consultation results: number (%)

1614 (7.8)

  5+ consultation results: number (%)

1538 (7.5)

 Healthcare procedures delivered per consultation: mean (SD)

4.8 (3.09)

  1. aIncludes professions such as farmers, retailers, craftspeople and senior managers
  2. bIncludes children, unemployed people, stay at home parents, students etc. but does not include retired people