Physicians’ recommendations to their patients concerning a novel pandemic vaccine: a cross-sectional survey of the 2009 influenza A/H1N1 pandemic in Japan

Table 1 Respondent characteristics

	n	%
All	515
Sex
Men	480	93.2
Women	31	6.0
Unknown^a	4	0.8
Age, years
20–39	18	3.5
40–59	305	59.2
≥60	191	37.1
Unknown^a	1	0.2
Department/specialty
Internal medicine	368	71.5
Surgery	99	19.2
Other	47	9.1
Unknown^a	1	0.2
No. of patients seen per day
<50	177	34.4
≥50	333	64.7
Unknown^a	5	1.0
No. of A/H1N1 patient contacts by time of survey
0	27	5.2
1–20	390	57.7
>20	98	36.9
Unknown^a	1	0.2
Seasonal influenza vaccination
Every year/almost every year	473	91.8
Sometimes/rarely	41	8.0
Unknown^a	1	0.2

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