Table 1

Practice profiles of 129 specialist physicians who responded to the survey sent to all members of Quebec associations of infectious diseases and medical microbiologists and of public health and preventive medicine

IDMM

PHPMS


All respondents N = 68

Respondents involved in the 2009 pH1N1 N = 62

All respondents N = 61

Respondents involved in the 2009 pH1N1 N = 40


Practice Field


Infectious Diseases

65 (97.0%)

59 (96.7%)

19 (31.7%)

19 (48.7%)


Other

2 (3.0%)

2 (3.3%)

41 (68.3%)

20 (51.3%)


Practice Setting


Clinical Setting

49 (72.1%)

47 (75.8%)

1 (1.7%)

1 (2.6%)


Local Health Team

1 (1.5%)

1 (1.6%)

3 (5.0%)

1 (2.6%)


Regional Public Health Team

0

0

45 (75.0%)

34 (87.2%)


Provincial Public Health Team

1 (1.5%)

1 (1.6%)

9 (15.0%)

3 (7.7%)


Other

17 (25.0%)

13 (21.0%)

2 (3.3%)

0


Type of Health Care Region


Academic

37 (55.2%)

33 (54.1%)

32 (61.5%)

21 (60.0%)


Intermediate

18 (26.7%)

17 (27.9%)

12 (23.1%)

8 (22.9%)


Peripheral

8 (11.9%)

8 (13.1%)

7 (13.5%)

5 (14.3%)


Remote

4 (6.0%)

3 (4.9%)

1 (1.9%)

1 (2.9%)


IDMM: infectious diseases specialist/medical microbiologists; PHPMS: public health and preventive medicine specialists

Nhan et al. BMC Public Health 2012 12:115   doi:10.1186/1471-2458-12-115

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