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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Mar 17.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 Jan 28;70(3):683–687. doi: 10.1111/jgs.17645

TABLE 1.

Baseline characteristics of primary care physician (PCP) respondents (n = 181)

Characteristics Overall PCPs (n = 181)
Gender
 Female 59.1%

Race/Ethnicity
 Non-Hispanic White 82.6%
 Black/Other 17.3%
 Hispanic   5.0%

PCP age (years)
 30–39 17.9%
 40–49 13.6%
 50–59 33.9%
 60–69 26.5%
 ≥70   8.0%

PCP role
 Physician 96.9%
 Nurse practitioner   3.0%

Years out of school
 <5 years 11.8%
 5 years–<10 years   8.1%
 ≥10 years–<20 years 14.9%
 ≥20 years–<30 years 36.7%
 ≥30 years 28.5%

Specialty
 Internal medicine 60.9%
 Family medicine 26.1%
 Geriatrics   4.3%
 Other   8.7%

Community versus Academic primary care practice
 Community 74.7%
  Beth Israel Deaconess community practices (20 practices) 30.2%
  Lahey Health/Lahey community practice (15 practices) 30.8%
  Mount Auburn Health (MAPS) (8 practices) 13.2%
 Academic 25.3%
  Beth Israel Deaconess internal medicine and geriatrics 25.2%

Panel size
 <1000 patients 30.6%
 ≥1000 patients 69.4%

Proportion of patients ≥65 years old in panel
 ≤20% 20.7%
 21%–30% 28.6%
 31%–40% 22.7%
 41%–74% 25.2%