Characteristics of Respondents and Their Practice Locations
| 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.