Postoperative abdominal adhesions and bowel obstruction. A survey among Dutch general practitioners

Figures & data

Figure 1. Reported clinical experience of the 190 respondents who filled out the questionnaire about bowel obstruction and abdominal adhesions. The X-axis contains the 5 years clusters of experience. The Y-axis informs about absolute numbers of responding GPs in each cluster.

Table 1. Characteristics of 190 GPs who completed the questionnaire, compared with the national database of actively practicing GPs in the Netherlands (NIVEL)^a.

	Respondents of this survey	NIVEL database of GPs	P-value
Male respondent	69%	65%	0.500^b
Practice structure			< 0.001^b
Single-handed	32%	18%
Partnership	66.5%	80%
Practice location			0.019^c
Urban area	41.5%	47.6%
Mixed urban/rural	41.5%	41.4%
Rural area	17%	11 %^b
Full-time practice	43.9%	44.7%	0.410^b
Mean practice size	2510 patients	2371 patients	0.057^d

^aNIVEL: (Nederlands Instituut voor Eerstelijn) The Netherlands Institute for Primary Care.

^bOne sample binominal test.

^cOne sample t-test.

^dOne sample Chi-square test.

Figure 2. Prescriptions totals in specified categories for obstructive complaints, mentioned by 190 respondents. GPs could note more than one drug.