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Table 1 General practitioners: Gender, TOP provision status, setting, and area of work

From: Medical termination of pregnancy in general practice in Australia: a descriptive-interpretive qualitative study

General practitioners

Ā 

Nā€‰=ā€‰32

Percent

Gender

Female

24

75.0

Male

9

28.1

Role

General Practitioner (GP)

31

96.8

GP/surgeonb

1

3.1

Provision of MTOP

Provider

8

25.0

Non-provider

24

75.0

Work setting

Private GP practice

32

100

Area (NSWa)

Metropolitan

16

50.0

Inner regional

13

40.6

Outer regional

1

3.1

Remote & very remote

2

6.2

  1. aAustralian Statistical Geography Standard Remoteness Structure [32]
  2. bAlso known as a procedural GP and defined as a rural or remote GP who ā€˜provides abortion services, normally in a hospital theatre, maternity care setting or appropriately equipped facility, which in urban areas are typically the province of a specific referral based specialtyā€™ [33]