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Results
Participants
All 95 hospitals in The Netherlands were contacted. Some of them turned out to have merged, or appeared to be different locations of the same hospital. The representative gynaecologists from the remaining 85 hospitals were invited to participate, of which 67 completed the questionnaire (response rate 79%). In five hospitals no gynaecologist was willing to participate, six gynaecologists started the questionnaire but did not complete it, and seven gynaecologists did not start to fill in the questionnaire despite earlier consent. The demographic characteristics are shown in Table 1.
Table 1. Demographic characteristics of respondents (n=67) and hospitals Characteristics
Age (y)
Gender (n) Male Female
Years of working experience as a gynaecologist Type of hospital (n)
Academic medical centre Teaching hospital Community hospital
Size of practice(FTE gynaecologists)
New diagnosed endometriosis cases per Year (n)
Endometriosis patients are seen by (n)
All gynaecologists
A single gynaecologist / team of limited number of gynaecologists
Subspecialisation of gynaecologists treating endometriosis patients (%)
Benign gynaecology
Reproductive
Benign and reproductive Oncology
No subspecialisation
*Values are median [interquartile range] # missing: 7
47 [41-54]*
35 (52%) 32 (48%)
11 [6.5-20.5]*
7 33 27
8.1 [5.8-12]*
55 [30-110.5]* #
32 (48%) 35 (52%)
18 13 17 2 17
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