Table 1 Characteristics of queries submitted to the clinical-pharmacological drug information center of Hannover Medical School between October 2018 and April 2022 (n = 594).

Variables	No. of submitted queries	%
Type of query
Patient-specific	492	82.8
General	102	17.2
Origin of query
Hannover Medical School	449	75.6
Academic teaching hospital	77	13.0
Private practice	18	3.0
Other^a	50	8.4
Profession of inquiring healthcare professionals
Physician	571	96.1
Dentist	3	0.5
Pharmacist	2	0.3
Other (e.g., medical student)	18	3.0
Specialization of inquiring healthcare professionals^b
Internal medicine	185	31.1
Psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine	85	14.3
Surgery	83	14.0
Urology	55	9.3
Pediatrics	27	4.5
Gynecology and obstetrics	24	4.0
Radiology and radiotherapy	20	3.4
General practice	19	3.2
Dermatology	18	3.0
Neurology	16	2.7
Other	44	7.4
Not documented	18	3.0

^aComprises queries from medical students not affiliated with Hannover Medical School, physicians working at laboratories or agencies (e.g., public health department), or retired physicians, among others.
^bData presented in aggregated form (i.e., without differentiation between subdisciplines of internal medicine, surgery, etc.); the full description of medical specialties is shown in Supplementary Table 1.

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