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Table 1 Practice profiles of 129 specialist physicians who responded to the survey sent to all members of Quebec associations of infectious diseases and medical microbiologists and of public health and preventive medicine

From: Coordination and resource-related difficulties encountered by Quebec's public health specialists and infectious diseases/medical microbiologists in the management of A (H1N1) - a mixed-method, exploratory survey

 

IDMM

PHPMS

 

All respondents N = 68

Respondents involved in the 2009 pH1N1 N = 62

All respondents N = 61

Respondents involved in the 2009 pH1N1 N = 40

Practice Field

    

Infectious Diseases

65 (97.0%)

59 (96.7%)

19 (31.7%)

19 (48.7%)

Other

2 (3.0%)

2 (3.3%)

41 (68.3%)

20 (51.3%)

Practice Setting

    

Clinical Setting

49 (72.1%)

47 (75.8%)

1 (1.7%)

1 (2.6%)

Local Health Team

1 (1.5%)

1 (1.6%)

3 (5.0%)

1 (2.6%)

Regional Public Health Team

0

0

45 (75.0%)

34 (87.2%)

Provincial Public Health Team

1 (1.5%)

1 (1.6%)

9 (15.0%)

3 (7.7%)

Other

17 (25.0%)

13 (21.0%)

2 (3.3%)

0

Type of Health Care Region

    

Academic

37 (55.2%)

33 (54.1%)

32 (61.5%)

21 (60.0%)

Intermediate

18 (26.7%)

17 (27.9%)

12 (23.1%)

8 (22.9%)

Peripheral

8 (11.9%)

8 (13.1%)

7 (13.5%)

5 (14.3%)

Remote

4 (6.0%)

3 (4.9%)

1 (1.9%)

1 (2.9%)

  1. IDMM: infectious diseases specialist/medical microbiologists; PHPMS: public health and preventive medicine specialists