Management of sore throat in Danish general practices

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Table 2 Demographics of general practitioners participating in the study and in the Central Denmark Region

Variable	Participants	Total^a	p-value
Variable	(n = 266)	(n = 811)	p-value
Age (years), mean	47.0	51.7	0.175^b
30–39 years, n (%)⁺	75 (28%)	66 (8%)
40–49 years, n (%)	101 (38%)	293 (36%)
50–59 years, n (%)	55 (21%)	246 (30%)
60–69 years, n (%)	32 (12%)	196 (24%)
≥ 70 years, n (%)	3 (1%)	10 (1%)
Sex, n (%)			0.228^c
Male	114 (43%)	384 (47%)
Female	152 (57%)	427 (53%)
Years in general practice, median (range)	5 (0–35)	NA

^aData from the Organization of General Practitioners in Denmark (2017)
^bKruskal-Wallis test
^cFisher’s exact test
Abbreviation: NA Not available
⁺Of note, 75 general practitioners claimed their age was 30–39 years in the study, while the total number of general practitioners in this age group was 66 according to the Organization of General Practitioners. The reason for this discrepancy may be that data from the Organization of General Practitioners were obtained in January 2017 and the current study was conducted in October 2017

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