The role of alcohol in the management of hypertension in patients in European primary health care practices – a survey in the largest European Union countries

Table 1 Assessment details by country

Country	Region of drawn sample	Local responsibles	Incentives	Response rate^a	Number of complete responses
France	National sample	SFMG	None	8.5 %	512
Germany	Mostly Bavaria^b	BHÄV	No personal incentives; €15 paid to BHÄV suborganisation	2.3 %	103
Germany	Hamburg	CIAR	€15 voucher	7.9 %	88
Italy	National sample	SIMG	None	10.1 %	360
Spain	National sample	semFYC	None	9.4 %	802
Spain	National sample	semergen	None	1.1 %	95
UK	National sample	MediConf	£10 voucher	4.1 %	508
Total				5.7 %	2468

Note. SFMG Société Française de Médecine Générale, BHÄV Bayerischer Hausärzteverband, CIAR Centre for Interdisciplinary Addiction Research, SIMG Società Italiana di Medicina Generale, semFYC Sociedad Española de Medicina de Familia y Comunitaria. semergen = Sociedad Española de Médicos de Atención Primaria
^aRefers to number of any response among all contacted individuals
^bAn advertisement in a nationwide newspaper was placed during the period of data collection with very little response. Out of 103 GPs, 98 were from Bavaria and the remaining five from Hesse (1), North Rhine-Westphalia (2) and Saxony (2). The response rate was calculated by omitting the 54,000 potential readers from the denominator

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