Primary Care Provider Demographics and Engagement in Interprofessional Collaboration

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Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics for Primary Care Provider (PCP) Sample

	High Collaboration	Low Collaboration	P Value
PCPs (n)	170	169
Provider gender			0.015
Male, n (%)	50 (41)	71 (59)
Female, n (%)	120 (55)	98 (45)
Years since graduation	18.1 ± 10.4	19.4 ± 10.5	0.286
Provider type
Physician, n (%)	99 (49)	102 (51)	0.691^*
Nurse practitioner, n (%)	64 (68)	30 (32)	<0.001^*
Physician assistant, n (%)	7 (16)	37 (84)	<0.001^*
Average age of patient per provider	57.4 ± 15.7	45.1 ± 8.4	<0.001

Table 2.

Linear Regression Models of Interprofessional Collaboration

	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4
PCP demographics
Female	4.324*** (1.472)	2.259*** (0.630)	5.041*** (1.413)	1.898*** (0.608)
Years since graduation	−0.144* (0.0743)	−0.0254 (0.0338)	−0.171** (0.0659)	<0.001 (0.0315)
Provider type
Nurse practitioner	3.262* (1.838)	−1.665** (0.815)	—	—
Physician assistant	−3.790* (2.101)	−0.902 (0.902)	—	—
PCP’s patients
Average patient age (years)	0.472*** (0.0488)	0.154*** (0.0466)	0.520*** (0.0469)	0.163*** (0.0460)