Allibone et al, 198123 | UK | 1444 | Medical graduates 1935–1959 | Postal questionnaire | 932 | 52.2a | 65 |
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Glanz et al, 198252 | US | 636 | Physicians at Temple University Health Sciences Centre 1980 | Distributed questionnaire | 296 | 28a | 47 |
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Kahn et al, 19888 | US | 221/416b | Doctors in university faculty/non-MD academics | Postal questionnaire | 144/283b | n/a | 65/68 |
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Richards, 198913 | UK | 501 | Family physicians contracted with Avon Family Practitioner Committee at 1 July 1987 | Postal questionnairec | 431 | ≤35: 27.4%; 36–50: 47.8%; ≥51: 23.7% | 86 |
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Rennert et al, 199018 | Israel | 366 | Members of Israeli Association of Family Physicians | Postal questionnaire | 243 | 47a | 66 |
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Bortz, 199253 | US | 152 | Members of Palo Alto Medical Clinic | Survey | 126 | 47.6a | 83 |
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Chambers and Belcher, 199215 | UK | 275 | Family physicians attending a course or postgraduate lecture | Given questionnaire at meeting | 247 | 42.2a | 90 |
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Pullen et al, 19959 | Australia | 2564 | Registered doctors | Postal questionnaire | 1125 | n/a | 44 |
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Baldwin et al, 199716 | UK | 150 | Junior doctors who graduated from a Scottish university | Structured interviec | 142 | 33a | 95 |
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Clarke et al, 199820 | Ireland | 85 | GPs, GP trainees, hospital consultants | Postal questionnaire | 76 | n/a | 89 |
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Wines et al, 199854 | Australia | 275 | Doctors attending of Given urology meeting | Given questionnaire at meeting | 205 | n/a | 75 |
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Forsythe et al, 199925 | UK | 1733 | Consultants and principals in general practice structured | Postal semi-structured questionnairec | 1151 | n/a | 66 |
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McCall et al, 199926 | Australia | 544 | Family physicians | Postal questionnaire | 318 | <35: 21%; 35–54: 64%; >55: 15% | 58 |
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Richards, 199931 | New Zealand | 500 | Registered doctors | Postal questionnaire | 311 | <30: 13.5%; 30–49: 67.5%; >50: 18.9% | 62 |
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Gross et al, 200019 | US | 1337 | Medical graduates Postal 1948–1964 | Postal questionnaire | 915 | 61a | 68 |
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Rosen et al, 200032 | US | 389 | Internal medicine residents (four training programmes) | Postal questionnaire | 316 | 29a | 83 |
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Toyry et al, 200055 | Finland | 4477 | Finnish Medical Association members | Postal questionnaire | 3313 | 42.3a | 74 |
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Shadbolt, 200224 | Australia | 300 | Junior house officers | Survey (issued) and focus groups | 156 | n/a | 52 |
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Rosvold and Bjertness, 200212 | Norway | 1476 | Norwegian Medical Association members | Postal questionnaire | 1015 | 42a | 69 |
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Campbell and Delva, 200317 | Canada | 215 | Residents in Faculty of Medicine at Queen's University | Mailbox questionnaire | 122 | n/a | 57 |
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Davidson and Schattner, 200310 | Australia | 896 | Health Insurance Commission register | Postal questionnairec | 358 | 40–55: 55% | 40 |
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Uallachain, 200721 | Ireland | 112 | National Association of GP trainees at annual general meeting 2003 | Given questionnaire at meeting | 100 | <25: 8%; 26–30: 81%; 31–35: 10%; >36: 1% | 89 |
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Schneider et al, 200733 | Switzerland | 2756 | Swiss primary care physician members of Federatio Medicorum Helveticorum | Postal questionnaire | 1782 | 51a | 65 |