Table 1 |
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Characteristics of study participants versus the Belgian physician populationa |
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Survey population |
Belgian physician population |
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Characteristic |
Psychiatrists (n = 105) |
GPs (n = 264) |
Psychiatrists (n = 1611) |
GPs (n = 14 888) |
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Female (%) |
36 |
22 |
43 |
36 |
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Practice: private/institutional/both (%) |
17/16/67 |
96/4/0 |
- |
- |
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Mean age (years) |
46 |
50 |
50 |
50 |
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Mean duration of practice (years) |
17 |
24 |
- |
- |
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Number of patients with depression treated each month |
71 |
33 |
- |
- |
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GP, general practitioner. aBased on physicians present in the Belgian Central Medical Database. |
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Demyttenaere et al. BMC Psychiatry 2011 11:169 doi:10.1186/1471-244X-11-169 |
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