Distribution of Practitioner Characteristics, by Whether the Practitioner Earned Any Continuing Education Credits and Whether the Practitioner Coauthored Any Presentation or Publication; National Dental Practice–Based Research Network, April 2012 through December 2018
| Practitioner Characteristics | All (n = 4361) | Continuing Education (CE) | Any Type Publication (n = 159) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orientation Only (n = 811) | ≥ 1 CE (n = 1775) | P | ||||||||
| N* | %† | N | Row %‡ | N | Row % | N | Row % | P | ||
| Gender | <.001 | .3 | ||||||||
| Male | 3063 | 71% | 598 | 20% | 1299 | 42% | 117 | 4% | ||
| Female | 1270 | 29% | 209 | 16% | 463 | 36% | 40 | 3% | ||
| Race-ethnicity§ | <.001 | .6 | ||||||||
| White | 3314 | 76% | 642 | 19% | 1413 | 43% | 121 | 4% | ||
| African-American | 182 | 4% | 40 | 22% | 71 | 39% | 4 | 2% | ||
| Asian | 473 | 11% | 63 | 13% | 149 | 32% | 16 | 3% | ||
| Other/unknown | 115 | 3% | 14 | 12% | 38 | 33% | 4 | 3% | ||
| Hispanic | 277 | 6% | 52 | 19% | 104 | 38% | 14 | 5% | ||
| Age at network enrollment | <.001 | .026 | ||||||||
| <35 years | 591 | 14% | 105 | 18% | 205 | 35% | 17 | 3% | ||
| 35–44 years | 951 | 22% | 175 | 18% | 363 | 38% | 26 | 3% | ||
| 45–54 years | 968 | 22% | 164 | 17% | 418 | 43% | 48 | 5% | ||
| 55–64 years | 1298 | 30% | 257 | 20% | 571 | 44% | 55 | 4% | ||
| 65+ years | 491 | 11% | 101 | 21% | 203 | 41% | 13 | 3% | ||
| Year graduated dental school | <.001 | <.001 | ||||||||
| Before 1980 | 915 | 21% | 215 | 24% | 414 | 45% | 27 | 3% | ||
| 1980–1989 | 1247 | 29% | 216 | 17% | 553 | 44% | 67 | 5% | ||
| 1990–1999 | 867 | 20% | 152 | 18% | 369 | 43% | 36 | 4% | ||
| 2000–2009 | 948 | 22% | 180 | 19% | 352 | 37% | 22 | 2% | ||
| 2010 or later | 347 | 8% | 43 | 12% | 80 | 23% | 6 | 2% | ||
| General dentist/specialist | <.001 | .002 | ||||||||
| General dentist | 3227 | 74% | 635 | 20% | 1402 | 43% | 135 | 4% | ||
| Specialist | 1123 | 26% | 172 | 15% | 366 | 33% | 24 | 2% | ||
| Practice type | .2 | .01 | ||||||||
| Owner, private | 2917 | 68% | 561 | 19% | 1207 | 41% | 93 | 3% | ||
| Associate, private | 595 | 14% | 106 | 18% | 227 | 38% | 23 | 4% | ||
| HP/PDA | 201 | 5% | 30 | 15% | 90 | 45% | 16 | 8% | ||
| Public, Community Health | 179 | 4% | 32 | 18% | 75 | 42% | 8 | 4% | ||
| Academic, other¶ | 412 | 10% | 70 | 17% | 157 | 38% | 16 | 4% | ||
| Network region | <.001 | .049 | ||||||||
| Western | 680 | 16% | 52 | 8% | 177 | 26% | 27 | 4% | ||
| Midwest | 533 | 13% | 88 | 16% | 229 | 43% | 29 | 5% | ||
| Southwest | 798 | 19% | 147 | 18% | 263 | 33% | 18 | 2% | ||
| South Central | 770 | 18% | 212 | 28% | 441 | 57% | 31 | 4% | ||
| South Atlantic | 554 | 13% | 137 | 25% | 262 | 47% | 20 | 4% | ||
| Northeast | 849 | 20% | 146 | 17% | 304 | 36% | 25 | 3% | ||
HP, HealthPartners Dental; PDA, Permanente Dental Associates.
↵* Numbers not summing to column N within characteristic due to missing values.
↵† Column percents, not summing to 100 due to rounding.
↵‡ Row percents, viz., percent received CE amount, or co-authored publication within practitioner characteristic.
↵§ Races are non-Hispanic.
↵¶ Academic n = 301, Federal n = 70, other n = 41.