Age in years (mean (SD)) | 47.1 (6.4) |
Gender (% female) | 26.4 |
Years since registration (mean (SD)) | 18.2 (8.7) |
Number of patients (mean (SD)) | 2,197 (646) |
Type of practice (% single-handed) | 24.5 |
Consulting national guidelines for GPs (% > once a week) | 54.0 |
Seeing pharmaceutical representatives (% yes) | 56.4 |
Inclination to prescribe new drugs (mean (SD))* | 2.4 (0.7) |
Medical knowledge on respiratory tract symptoms and antibiotics (mean (SD))** | 7.1 (1.5) |
Views on acute respiratory tract symptoms and antibiotics (mean (SD))*** | |
- Seriousness | 2.0 (0.8) |
- Self- limiting character | 4.3 (0.6) |
- Need to consult a general practitioner | 3.5 (0.8) |
- Need of antibiotics in case of fever | 1.7 (0.7) |
- Need of antibiotics in case of green phlegm | 1.7 (0.7) |
- Need of antibiotics in case of white spots in the throat | 2.3 (1.1) |
- Effectiveness of antibiotics | 1.9 (0.8) |
- Side-effects of antibiotics | 2.3 (1.0) |
Acute respiratory tract episodes/1,000 patients/year (mean (SD)) | 236.9 (67.7) |
Proportion of acute respiratory tract episodes labelled as diagnosis (mean (SD)) | 0.70 (0.11) |
Antibiotic prescriptions for acute respiratory tract episodes per 1,000 patients/year (mean (SD)) | 107.4 (45.0) |
Proportion of antibiotic prescriptions/acute respiratory tract episodes (mean (SD)) | 0.41 (0.13) |