Characteristics of primary healthcare providers (PHCPs), including general practitioners (GPs), GPs in training and other PHCPs who participated in their first testing time points*
| PHCPs n=3390 | GPs n=2597 | GPs in training n=386 | Other PHCPs n=407 | |||||
| Age†, median (IQR) | 40 | (31-54) | 44 | (34-57) | 27 | (26-28) | 38 | (31-47) |
| Gender‡, n (%) | ||||||||
| Male | 1119 | (33.0) | 943 | (36.3) | 112 | (29.0) | 64 | (15.7) |
| Female | 2296 | (66.9) | 1652 | (63.6) | 274 | (71.0) | 343 | (84.3) |
| Not reported | 2 | (0.1) | 2 | (0.1) | 0 | (0) | 0 | (0) |
| Practice size, n (%)‡ | ||||||||
| Solo | 618 | (33.5) | 580 | (34.7) | 54 | (16.1) | 29 | (11.8) |
| Duo | 361 | (19.6) | 328 | (19.6) | 74 | (22.1) | 32 | (13.1) |
| Group (<8 employees) | 382 | (20.7) | 351 | (21.0) | 51 | (15.2) | 21 | (8.6) |
| Large group (>7 employees) | 444 | (24.1) | 386 | (23.1) | 156 | (46.6) | 150 | (61.2) |
*The first testing time point was December 2020 for 2820 and January 2021 for 570 PHCPs, respectively.
†Ages <21 were considered unrealistic and recoded as missing; IQR=IQR range.
‡If numbers do not add up to the column total, this is due to missing data; numbers of practices for PHCPs=1845, GPs=1672, GPs in training=335 and other PHCPs=245.