The majority of the participants (77%) were specialised physicians and 46percentnt worked in hospitals, 22percentnt in primary care, and 32percentnt in other healthcare settings.
Information about the involved professional carer (e.g. specialised physicians, nursing and social services) and informal carers (e.g. family members, neighbours) contextualised the qualitative findings.
About 80% of staff classified as "highly specialised" were physicians, whereas the majority of "specialised and unspecialised employees" were nurses (including head nurses), therapists, and laboratory and radiology technicians.
In the USA, patients in whom the type of referring physicians was known were mostly referred by a GP, an orthopaedist, a physiatrist, i.e. a physician specialised in physical medicine and rehabilitation, or an occupational medicine physician.
The counselling includes two one-hour sessions with an occupational physician specialised in oncology.
Targets were measured on computed tomography (CT) images and reassessed for the purpose of the study by at least one physician specialised in thoracic oncology (ACT, DMS, PM, MP, PJS, PR, or PC).
They were recruited from an ongoing study of the treatment of acute hepatitis C among HIV-positive individuals at the University of Bonn, where they had been referred from HIV outpatient departments or practice-based physicians specialised in HIV care across Germany.
The population consisted of French- and German-speaking private practice physicians specialised in family medicine.
A typical DTC consists of physicians (specialised in internal medicine or any other drug-intensive specialty), nurses and pharmacists [ 23].
However, in this study only physicians specialised in family medicine employed at an HC were interviewed [ 9, 24].
