Table 1

Descriptive statistics for the respondents

NMeanSD
Age353449.2210.98
NProportion (%)
Women176049.8
Position
Intern/registrar79722.6
Consultant (low)42011.9
Consultant (high)126035.7
Head of unit2025.7
Executive director300.9
General Practitioner (GP, employee)702.0
General Practitioner (GP, owner)75521.4
Specialty
Anaesthesiology and acute medicine35410.0
Family medicine70219.9
Gynaecology and obstetrics1805.1
Medical specialties84724.0
Paediatrics1554.4
Psychiatry2667.5
Service specialties2858.1
Surgical specialties70019.8
Other451.3
  • Interns are the Danish ‘Læge i KBU-uddannelse/Læge i introduktionsstilling’, ‘Regis’ refers to registrars (Læge i hoveduddannelsesforløb), ‘Cons (low)’ refers to consultants with limited management responsibilities (Speciallæge ansat som afdelingslæge), ‘Cons (high)’ refers to consultants with high management responsibilities (Speciallæge ansat som overlæge), Head of unit captures the Danish ‘Ledende overlæge/klinikchef’, ‘Executive director’ stands for executive director, chief medical officer (Lægelig direktør/cheflæge). Finally, ‘General Practitioner (GP, employer)’ refers to those doctors who work at someone else’s private general practice (Praktiserende speciallæge (almen- eller andre) som ikke ejer egen klinik), whereas ‘General Practitioner (GP, owner)’ refers to those who own their general practice (Praktiserende speciallæge (almen- eller andre) som ejer egen klinik). ‘Medical specialties’ includes the specialties internal medicine: nephrology, internal medicine: rheumatology, occupational and environmental medicine, dermatology and venereology, internal medicine: endocrinology, internal medicine: geriatrics, internal medicine: gastroenterology and hepatology, internal medicine: haematology, internal medicine: infectious disease, internal medicine: cardiology, internal medicine: pulmonary, neurology, public health medicine and clinical oncology. ‘Psychiatry’ includes psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry. ’Service specialties’ includes diagnostic radiology, clinical biochemistry, clinical pharmacology, clinical physiology and nuclear medicine, clinical genetics, clinical immunology, clinical microbiology, pathology, and forensic medicine. ‘Surgical specialties’ includes surgery, vascular surgery, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, orthopaedic surgery, oto-rhino-laryngology, plastic surgery, cardiothoracic surgery and urology.