Table 1 Patient and practice characteristics
From: A pilot study of the duration of GP consultations in Ireland
Patient characteristics | |
Age years (mean) | 63.4 |
Men (%) | 56.0 |
Diabetes type (%) | |
Gestational | 5.7 |
Type 1 | 12.9 |
Type 2 | 81.4 |
Patient type (%) | |
Public | 65.0 |
Private | 35.0 |
Practice characteristics | |
Number of practices | 3 |
Rural (%) | 66.6 |
Total patients in all practices | 41,254 |
Public patients (%) | 47.8 |
No. of GPs | 15 |
No. of practice nurses | 3 |
GP age (mean) | 46 |
Female GP (%) | 70.2 |