Volume 11, Number 3—March 2005
Policy Review
Notifiable Disease Surveillance and Practicing Physicians
Table 1
Characteristic | All physicians in Germany* (N = 59,610), % | Study population (N = 8,550), % | Survey (questionnaire) (N = 1,320), % | Survey (telephone) (N = 656), % |
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Age, y ≤39 40–49 50–59 ≥60 | 13.7 40.3 35.0 11.0 | – – – – | 10.6 38.7 40.9 9.8 | 6.1 32.5 43.5 18.0 |
Sex Male Female | 68.3 31.7 | 70.6 29.4 | 73.9 26.1 | 72.8 27.2 |
Specialization General medicine Internal medicine Other | 73.2 26.8 | 70.7 28.0 1.3 | 72.6† 24.9 2.5 | 75.6 22.9 1.5 |
Region West† East | 83.3 16.7 | 88.6 11.4 | 83.9 16.1 | 84.0 16.0 |
*According to the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians.
†Including Berlin.
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