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Provider type Physician (DO/MD)* 18 PA 1 NP 1 Practice characteristics Community, single specialty 8 (2 hospital owned) Academic-affiliated, single specialty residency 8 Large, multidisciplinary, public health safety net and large academic medical center 4 Practice location Suburban 8 Rural (rural/community health center) 7 Urban 5 Year respondents completed training Range 1978–2015 Median 1998 Time in current location (years) Range 0.75–37 Mean 14.6 Median 14 Patients who died in the past year (n) Range 0–50 Mean 11.8 Median 8 Physicians would not be surprised if this proportion of patients died in the next year Range 1–17.5 Mean 4.9 Median 5 ↵* Practicing in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, or Internal Medicine/Pediatrics.