Respondents' Characteristics, (n = 401)
| Characteristic | N (%)* | Characteristic | N (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | Primary employer | ||
| Male | 171 (46.3) | Self-employed | 80 (20.0) |
| Female | 196 (53.1) | Physician group | 71 (19.2) |
| Other | 2 (0.6) | University owned clinic or hospital | 48 (13.0) |
| Missing | 33 | Private for-profit hospital or health system | 20 (5.4) |
| Age, years | Private non-profit hospital or health system | 86 (23.3) | |
| Mean ± SD | 50.2 ± 11.1 | Managed care or insurance company | 10 (2.7) |
| Age group | Federal, state, or local government, community board, etc. | 25 (6.8) | |
| 25–34 | 26 (7.1) | Locum tenens group/staffing organization | 3 (0.8) |
| 35–44 | 99 (27.0) | Medical school | 10 (2.7) |
| 45–54 | 111 (30.3) | Other | 16 (4.3) |
| 55–64 | 84 (23.0) | Missing† | 32 |
| ≥65 | 46 (12.6) | Primary patient care location | |
| Missing† | 35 | Privately-owned medical practice | 171 (46.5) |
| Employment status | Federally Qualified Community Health Center | 37 (10.1) | |
| Full-time | 331 (84.4) | Other clinic | 104 (28.3) |
| Part-time | 49 (12.5) | Hospital (not emergency department) | 7 (1.9) |
| Fully retired | 8 (2.0) | Hospital (emergency department) | 3 (0.8) |
| Not in workforce for other reasons | 4 (1.0) | Urgent care facility | 12 (3.3) |
| Missing† | 9 | Institutional residential facility (student health, prisons, nursing homes) | 12 (3.3) |
| Specialty | Do not see patients in primary setting | 13 (3.5) | |
| Family medicine | 359 (97.6) | Other | 9 (2.4) |
| General internal medicine | 2 (0.5) | Missing† | 33 |
| Emergency medicine | 1 (0.3) | Percentage of work time in clinical practice | |
| Pediatrics | — | <50% | 94 (24.3) |
| Obstetrics/gynecology | — | 50% | 13 (3.4) |
| Other | 6 (1.6) | >50% | 280 (72.4) |
| Missing† | 33 | Missing | 14 |
| Years in clinical practice | Percentage of work time in administration/managerial | ||
| Mean ± SD | 18.9 ± 11.3 | <50% | 344 (88.9) |
| Minimum | <1 (0.8) | 50% | 10 (2.6) |
| Maximum | 51 (0.3) | >50% | 33 (8.5) |
| Missing† | 33 | Missing | 14 |
| Practice location | Percentage of work time in research | ||
| Urban | 307 (85.0) | <50% | 386 (96.3) |
| Large rural | 26 (7.2) | 50% | - |
| Small rural | 21 (5.8) | >50% | 1 (0.3) |
| Isolated | 7 (1.9) | Missing† | 14 |
| Missing† | 40 | Percentage of work time in teaching | |
| Membership | <50% | 375 (96.9) | |
| AAFP Member Insight Exchange | 288 (71.8) | 50% | 4 (1.0) |
| AAFP NRN Member | 113 (28.2) | >50% | 8 (2.1) |
| Missing† | 14 | ||
AAFP, American Academy of Family Physicians; NRN, National Research Network.
↵* Results presented as number (N) and percentage (%) unless denoted otherwise.
↵† The number of physicians who completed the survey but did not provide an answer to this specific question. Missing responses were excluded from the total before percentages were calculated.
SD, standard deviation.