Educational inequalities in patient-centred care: patients' preferences and experiences

Table 1 Patient characteristics

Group	N	gender	age			education¹
Group	N	male	<45	45-65	>65	low	medium	high
Benign breast abnormality	212	0,0 %	32,1 %	56,1 %	11,8 %	29,2 %	37,3 %	33,5 %
Malignant breast abnormality	313	0,0 %	11,2 %	54,3 %	34,5 %	37,7 %	39,9 %	22,4 %
Rheumatoid arthritis	349	26,6 %	9,7 %	47,0 %	43,3 %	48,4 %	35,0 %	16,6 %
Spinal disc herniation	145	53,1 %	25,5 %	49,7 %	24,8 %	33,8 %	37,9 %	28,3 %

¹ Any education up to lower secondary education was coded as ‘low’, upper secondary education was coded as ‘medium’ and both post secondary non-tertiary education and tertiary education were coded as ‘high’.

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