Table 3 Practitioner characteristics

From: Qualitative systematic review of barriers and facilitators to self-management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: views of patients and healthcare professionals

Author^ref.	Country	Sample size	Occupation	COPD expertise/engagement	Gender	Ethnicity	Mean age (years)
Fotokain et al.⁶⁰	Iran	5	Nurses = 3	NR	NR	NR	NR
			Physiotherapist = 1
			Pulmonologist = 1
Hillebregt et al.⁵⁷	The Netherlands	10	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR
Hyde et al.⁵⁶	Ireland	5	Practice nurse = 3	Delivered usual care to patient participants with COPD	Female: 3	NR	NR
			General practitioner = 2	Mean years in post: 13	Male: 2
Johnston et al.⁴⁹	Australia	16	Hospital-based medical practitioners = 9	“Actively involved” in the care of COPD patients in primary and tertiary care settings	NR	NR	NR
			General practitioner = 7
Johnston et al.⁴⁸	Australia	12	General practitioner = 12	“Actively involved” in the care of COPD patients in a tertiary care setting	Female: 10Male: 2	NR	NR
Kayyali et al.⁵⁴	UK	23	General practitioner = 1	NR	NR	NR	NR
			Specialist doctors = 13
			Nurses = 6
			Physiotherapists = 3
Ogunbayo et al.²²	UK	20	General practitioner = 2	Multidisciplinary healthcare teams involved in COPD care	Female: 15 Male: 5	Caucasian: 20	45
			Nurses
			Practice nurse = 2
			Respiratory nurse = 1
			Pharmacy
			Practice pharmacist = 1
			Community pharmacist = 1
			Respiratory
			Specialist respiratory/COPD practitioners = 6
			Consultant respiratory physician = 1
			Allied health professionals
			Physiologist = 1
			Physiotherapist = 1
			Occupational therapist = 1
			Other
			Community matron = 2
			Exercise instructor = 1
Summers et al.⁵³	UK	17	Respiratory physiotherapists = 17	With ⩾12 months current or previous experience of working with patients with COPD in a non-acute setting	Female: 13Male: 4	Caucasian: 14Black African: 1White S African: 2	NR
Verbrugge et al.⁵⁰	The Netherlands	14	Respiratory nurses = 14	Nurse-led clinics with a population of COPD patients in general hospitals, homecare organisations, and a university hospital	Female: 14Male: 0	NR	39
				Mean years of experience: 5
Wong et al.⁵⁵	Malaysia	18	General practitioner = 18	Manage COPD patients within a hospital chest clinic or primary care	Female: 13Male: 5	Malay: 7Indian: 5Chinese: 4Other Asian: 2	NR
Young et al.⁵²	UK	14	Allied health professionalPhysiotherapists = 3Occupational therapist = 1	Currently or recently (last 12 months) working with COPD patientsPrimary, community, and secondary care	Female: 14Male: 0	Caucasian: 13African Caribbean: 1	NR
			Nurse (Respiratory)
			Respiratory research nurse = 3
			Community respiratory nurses = 2
			Respiratory nurse = 1
			Nurse (other)
			Practice nurse = 3
			Nurse practitioner = 1
Zakrisson and Hagglund⁵¹	Sweden	12	Asthma/COPD nurses = 12	Specialist / University education in asthma/COPD: 8No specialist education: 2	NR	NR	NR
				Median years of experience in asthma/COPD clinics: 7
				Primary care setting
	Total	166	Respiratory = 58		Female: 82	Caucasian: 47	NA
			General practitioner = 42		Male: 18	Asian: 18
			Nurse = 18Other practitioner = 25Allied health professional = 11Pharmacists = 2NR = 10		NR: 43	White S African: 2 African Caribbean: 1Black African: 1NR: 74

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