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

Table 3 Number of patients general practitioners referred to NPHPs

Non-physician health professional	Number of referrals (n = 1455)	% of total consultations
Physiotherapists	927 (63.7%)	4.5
Podiatrists	172 (11.7%)	0.8
Nurses	142 (9.8%)	0.7
Psychologists	49 (3.4%)	0.2
Osteopaths	36 (2.5%)	0.2
Speech therapists	29 (2%)	0.1
Dentists	28 (1.9%)	0.1
Nutritionists	27 (1.9%)	0.1
Others^a	45 (3.1%)	0.2

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