Characteristics | Respondents |
---|---|
Medical specialty† | |
Internal medicine | 565 (45.5) |
Family practice | 648 (52.1) |
Other | 84 (6.8) |
Sex | |
Male | 756 (62.1) |
Female | 461 (37.9) |
Practice ownership | |
Physician or group of physicians | 558 (45.1) |
Hospital | 240 (19.4) |
Healthcare organization larger than 1 hospital | 190 (15.4) |
Academic institution | 129 (10.4) |
Other | 119 (9.6) |
Mean age, years (range) | 53.0 (27–83) |
Mean years in practice (range) | 20.8 (1–56) |