Table 1 Demographics of investigated population
From: Are Dutch patients willing to be seen by a physician assistant instead of a medical doctor?
Frequency | Per cent | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Age (mean, SD) | male | 39 (8.0) | . |
female | 38 (8.0) | . | |
Gender | male | 225 | 50.0 |
female | 225 | 50.0 | |
Type of patient | new patient | 153 | 34.0 |
follow-up patient | 297 | 66.0 | |
Inclusion per OPD | pulmonology | 159 | 35.3 |
cardiology | 155 | 34.4 | |
surgery | 136 | 30.2 | |
More than one visits to OPD last year | yes | 256 | 56.9 |
no | 194 | 43.1 | |
Characteristic of health problem | not sure | 3 | 0.7 |
acute | 213 | 47.3 | |
chronic | 234 | 52.0 | |
Marital status | unanswered | 1 | 0.2 |
married | 258 | 57.3 | |
not married | 191 | 42.4 | |
Children | unanswered | 1 | 0.2 |
yes | 311 | 69.1 | |
no | 138 | 30.7 | |
Highest level of education | primary | 30 | 6.7 |
secondary | 299 | 66.4 | |
tertiary | 121 | 26.9 | |
Professionally occupied | not working | 71 | 15.8 |
full-time | 210 | 46.7 | |
part-time | 169 | 37.6 |