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Table 1 Demographic information of participants of the questionnaire for physicians

From: Rare disease awareness and perspectives of physicians in China: a questionnaire-based study

Gender

Male (n = 104, 46.4%)

 

Female (n = 120, 53.6%)

Age (years)

 < 30 (n = 34, 15.2%)

 

30–45 (n = 132, 58.9%)

 

46–60 (n = 52, 23.2%)

 

 > 60 (n = 6, 2.7%)

Hospital

Tertiary A (n = 163, 72.8%)

 

Tertiary B (n = 16, 7.1%)

 

Tertiary C (n = 8, 3.6%)

 

Secondary A (n = 22, 9.8%)

 

Secondary B (n = 1, 0.4%)

 

Primary A (n = 4, 1.8%)

 

Primary B (n = 4, 1.8%)

Career length (years)

 < 5 (n = 49, 22.1%)

 

5–15 (n = 81, 36.5%)

 

16–30 (n = 71, 32.0%)

 

 > 30 (n = 21, 9.5%)

Specialty

Pediatrics (n = 13, 6.3%)

 

Radiology (n = 22, 10.6%)

 

Surgery (n = 18, 8.7%)

 

Orthopedics (n = 10, 4.8%)

 

Internal Medicine (n = 10, 4.8%)

 

Dermatology (n = 10, 4.8%)

 

Cardiology (n = 9, 4.3%)

 

Nephrology (n = 5, 2.4%)

 

Neurology (n = 5, 2.4%)

 

Obstetrics and Gynecology (n = 8, 3.9%)

 

Oncology (n = 9, 3.9%)

 

Other (n = 88, 42.5%)

  1. Only specialties with more than 4 participants were shown. Hospitals in China are organized into a 3-tier system: Primary (< 100 beds), Secondary (100–500 beds), or Tertiary institutions (> 500 beds). Moreover, based on size, medical equipment, medical technology, management, service provision, and medical quality, each tier are further divided into 3 levels: A, B and C. The category of other in specialty includes those with less than 5 participants, e.g., Chinese medicine, toxicology, dental, respiratory, molecular diagnostics, rehabilitation, urgent care, pathology, reproduction, otorhinolaryngology, ophthalmology, psychiatry, geriatrics, occupational diseases, endocrinology, pharmacology, public health, and anesthesiology