Table 1 Practice characteristics of the participating Belgian GP practices and a comparison between the Belgian regions: descriptive statistics and chi-square tests
Belgium (total)b | Brussels-Capital Region | Walloon Region | Flemish Region | p value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
GPsa | Total population | 11,767 (100) | 1178 (10.0) | 3784 (32.2) | 6805 (57.8) | |
GP practices | Study sample | 479 (100) | 47 (9.8) | 152 (31.7) | 280 (58.5) | |
Practice type | Solo | 178 (37.3) | 24 (52.2%) | 88 (58.7) | 65 (23.2) | < 0.001 |
Duo | 93 (19.5) | 6 (13.0%) | 28 (18.7) | 59 (21.1) | ||
Group | 206 (43.2) | 16 (34.8%) | 34 (22.7) | 156 (55.7) | ||
Multidisciplinarity of the team | Yes | 145 (31.2) | 14 (29.8%) | 32 (22.2) | 98 (35.9) | 0.016 |
No | 320 (68.8) | 33 (70.2%) | 112 (77.8) | 175 (64.1) | ||
GP trainee teaching practice | Yes | 201 (42.3) | 17 (37.0%) | 63 (42.3) | 121 (43.4) | 0.717 |
No | 274 (57.7) | 29 (63.0%) | 86 (57.7) | 158 (56.6) | ||
Payment system | Fee-for-service | 435 (91.0) | 39 (83.0) | 142 (94.0) | 253 (90.7) | 0.066 |
Capitation | 43 (9.0) | 8 (17.0) | 9 (6.0) | 26 (9.3) | ||