Building organisations, setting minds: exploring how boards of Dutch medical specialist companies address physicians’ professional performance

Table 1 Descriptions of participating MSCs

	≈ Number of specialists	Board size*	Hospital size**	Hospital recently merged***	Hospital location
MSC1	250	Large	Medium	Yes	Peripheral
MSC2	250	Small	Large	Yes	Peripheral
MSC3	150	Small	Medium	No	Urban
MSC4	50	Small	Small	No	Peripheral
MSC5	350	Large	Large	Yes	Peripheral
MSC6	250	Medium	Medium	No	Urban
MSC7	200	Medium	Large	Yes	Urban
MSC8	200	Large	Large	Yes	Urban

^*Board size: small (< 4), medium (4), large (> 4)
^**Hospital size in number of employees and yearly patient visits: small (< 2000 & < 250.000), medium (2000-4000 & 250.000-500.000), large (> 4000 & > 500.000)
^***Recently merged meant merged within the last 5 years at the time of data collection

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