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Table 1 Profile of office-based physicians with and without methadone substitution treatment

From: Difficulties associated with outpatient management of drug abusers by general practitioners. A cross-sectional survey of general practitioners with and without methadone patients in Switzerland

 

PT (n = 352)

PWT (n = 231)

X2, p value

Male

84.9%

82.7%

X2 = 0.4; p = 0.563

Practice in a town with >10,000 inhabitants

60%

66.2%

 

Practice in a town with <10,000 inhabitants

40%

33.8%

X2 = 2.3; p = 0.136

Works alone

57.9%

65.7%

 

Works in a group practice (with other doctors)

42.1%

34.3%

X2 = 3.5; p = 0.068

Median no. of years in practice* (mean SD)

15 (14.8 ± 7.4)

17 (17 ± 8.6)

Z = -3.2; p = 0.001

  1. PT = General practitioners with patients receiving methadone substitution treatment
  2. PWT = General practitioners without patients receiving methadone substitution treatment
  3. *P value was calculated using the Mann-Whitney test; other P values were calculated using Fisher's exact test