General practitioner’s clinical practices, difficulties and educational needs to manage Alzheimer’s disease in France: analysis of national telephone-inquiry data

Table 1 Representativeness of the sample: comparison of study-population values to national administrative databases

Values are expressed as percentages unless stated otherwise.
^aADELI (Automatisation DEs Listes: Automation of the Lists) is a national database that records all practicing professionals who must register their education degrees with State authorities. Included herein are only the GPs declaring at least half of their professional activity in private practice during 2008.
^bSNIR (Système National Inter-Régimes: National System between Reimbursement Regimens) is an information database, managed by the health-insurance organizations, that collects all the professionals whose private-practice activities earned a reimbursement during the previous year. The SNIR registry includes, in addition to doctors in private practice, full-time hospital staff physicians with private consultations in the hospital.
^cLocations where the GPs exercised their profession were apportioned according to regional telephone codes.

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