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Table 1 Characteristics of the survey response groups for Survey-1

From: Survey on patients with undiagnosed diseases in Japan: potential patient numbers benefiting from Japan’s initiative on rare and undiagnosed diseases (IRUD)

Survey-1

General Hospital (GH)

Family Clinics (FC)

Pediatrics/pediatric surgery

Others

Pediatrics/pediatric surgery

Others

No. of doctors who completed the survey

45

 

87

 

36

 

74

 

Sex

 Male

39

86.7%

80

92.0%

33

91.7%

64

86.5%

 Female

6

13.3%

7

8.0%

3

8.3%

10

13.5%

Age

 20s

0

0.0%

1

1.1%

0

0.0%

0

0.0%

 30s

10

22.2%

12

13.8%

1

2.8%

5

6.8%

 40s

8

17.8%

33

37.9%

5

13.9%

23

31.1%

 50s

18

40.0%

35

40.2%

19

52.8%

34

45.9%

 60+

9

20.0%

6

6.9%

11

30.6%

12

16.2%

Years since obtaining medical license

 Under 10 years

2

4.4%

3

3.4%

0

0.0%

2

2.7%

 10–14

8

17.8%

10

11.5%

0

0.0%

6

8.1%

 15–19

3

6.7%

20

23.0%

2

5.6%

8

10.8%

 20–24

9

20.0%

20

23.0%

7

19.4%

17

23.0%

 25–29

8

17.8%

23

26.4%

12

33.3%

19

25.7%

 30+

15

33.3%

11

12.6%

15

41.7%

22

29.7%

No. of outpatients in the past month

 Under 100 cases

6

13.3%

15

17.2%

0

0.0%

2

2.7%

 100–199 cases

14

31.1%

15

17.2%

2

5.6%

6

8.1%

 200–299 cases

9

20.0%

24

27.6%

4

11.1%

4

5.4%

 300–399 cases

6

13.3%

10

11.5%

0

0.0%

7

9.5%

 400–599 cases

7

20.0%

15

17.2%

6

16.7%

17

23.0%

 600–799 cases

1

0.0%

2

2.3%

12

33.3%

13

17.6%

 800–999 cases

0

0.0%

4

4.6%

5

13.9%

9

12.2%

 1000+ cases

2

4.4%

2

2.3%

7

19.4%

16

21.6%