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Table 2 General practitioners who treat patients with methadone substitution (PT, n = 352)

From: Difficulties associated with outpatient management of drug abusers by general practitioners. A cross-sectional survey of general practitioners with and without methadone patients in Switzerland

Would you accept new MMT patients?

Yes: 23.9 %

No: 73% (missing data: 3.1%)

 

Mean (SD)

Median

Actual number of patients on methadone treatment?

6.2 (± 9.04)

4

How many patients would you like to have on MMT?

5.8 (± 6.9)

4

Highest daily dose of methadone you ever prescribed:

120.4 mg (± 95.9)

100 mg (mode: 100 mg)

  1. PT = General practitioners with patients receiving methadone substitution treatment
  2. PWT = General practitioners without patients receiving methadone substitution treatment
  3. MMT = Methadone maintenance treatment