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Demographic and practice characteristics of respondents |
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| Child Health Providers (N = 1,021) |
Other Physicians (N= 3,159) |
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| Respondent Characteristics |
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| Age: Mean (range) |
49.54 |
(30–83) |
51.02 |
(30–86) |
| Gender (male) |
537 |
(64.8%) |
1941 |
(79.7%) |
| Race/ethnicity: |
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| Caucasian |
650 |
(63.7%) |
2221 |
(70.3%) |
| Hispanic |
177 |
(17.3%) |
362 |
(11.5%) |
| Asian |
119 |
(11.7%) |
314 |
(9.9%) |
| African American or Black |
34 |
(3.3%) |
99 |
(3.1%) |
| Other or unknown |
41 |
(4.0%) |
163 |
(5.2%) |
| Practice Characteristics |
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| Mean years practicing in current community (range) |
13.51 |
(1–50) |
15.03 |
(<1–50) |
| Mean years since medical school graduation (range) |
20.69 |
(<1–59) |
21.67 |
(<1–62) |
| Practice Size: |
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| Solo practice |
247 |
(25.5%) |
980 |
(32.7%) |
| 2–9 physicians |
588 |
(60.7%) |
1561 |
(52.1%) |
| 10–49 physicians |
104 |
(10.7%) |
279 |
(9.3%) |
| 50 or greater physicians |
29 |
(3.0%) |
177 |
(5.9%) |
| Practice setting: |
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| Rural |
77 |
(7.6%) |
168 |
(5.3%) |
| Urban |
942 |
(92.4%) |
2985 |
(94.7%) |
| Single specialty |
591 |
(87.7%) |
2121 |
(85.0%) |
| Multi specialty |
83 |
(12.3%) |
374 |
(15.0%) |
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Note: Where applicable, numbers may not add up to 100% due to rounding | ||||
Menachemi et al. BMC Pediatrics 2006 6:21 doi:10.1186/1471-2431-6-21 |
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