Table 2.
Respondent characteristics for rural and nonrural clinicians (n = 326)
| Rural n = 177 |
Nonrural n = 149 |
p value* (Rural vs. nonrural) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Practice location, % (n) | 54% | 46% | |
| Type of practicea, col % | |||
| FQHC | 21% | 11% | 0.025 |
| Private practice | 31% | 45% | 0.008 |
| Hospital/health-system owned | 45% | 32% | 0.019 |
| Academic | 8% | 20% | 0.002 |
| Other (VA, HMO) | 4% | 0% | 0.179 |
| Registry or prompting system for cancer prevention and control services, col % | 0.460 | ||
| Very robust | 31% | 30% | |
| For some | 44% | 50% | |
| No | 25% | 20% | |
| Degree, col % | 0.008 | ||
| MD | 73% | 81% | |
| DO | 10% | 13% | |
| NP | 7% | 2% | |
| PA | 5% | 3% | |
| Other (eliminated from survey) | 5% | 0% | |
| Specialty, col % | |||
| Family physician | 91% | 91% | 0.821 |
| Internal medicine | 4% | 8% | 0.116 |
| Other | 5% | 1% | 0.039 |
| Gender, col % | 0.577 | ||
| Male | 46% | 48% | |
| Female | 54% | 52% | |
| Panel size (patients per week), mean (SD) | 67 (45) | 79 (142) | 0.328 |
| Years from finished clinical training, years (SD) | 18 (12) | 22 (12) | 0.005 |
| Total number of clinical staff members, mean (SD) | 17 (19) | 19 (19) | 0.339 |
| Patient age, mean % (SD) | |||
| Percent < 18 years old | 13 (10) | 14 (12) | 0.780 |
| Percent 18–50 years old | 37 (16) | 42 (15) | 0.018 |
| Percent > 50 years old | 49 (19) | 44 (17) | (0.012) |
| Patients’ insurance types, mean % (SD) | |||
| Percent uninsured | 8 (11) | 8 (13) | 0.881 |
| Percent medicaid | 25 (18) | 22 (18) | 0.132 |
| Percent medicare | 36 (17) | 29 (13) | 0.0002 |
| Percent private | 32 (19) | 41 (22) | 0.0004 |
| Patient’s race and ethnicity, mean % (SD) | |||
| Percent white or Caucasian | 72 (22) | 60 (24) | < .0001 |
| Percent Hispanic or Latino | 14 (16) | 17 (19) | 0.142 |
| Percent black or African American | 8 (13) | 17 (18) | < 0.0001 |
| Percent Asian | 4 (8) | 6 (7) | 0.014 |
| Percent other (American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander) | 5 (11) | 3 (5) | 0.084 |
FQHC = Federally qualified health center; VA = Veterans affairs, HMO = Health maintenance organization; SD = Standard deviation; MD = Doctor of medicine; DO = Doctor of osteopathic medicine; NP = Nurse practitioner; PA = Physician’ assistant
*Chi-Square for comparison between rural and nonrural (p < 0.05 in bold)
aType of practice: percentages within rural and nonrural exceed 100% because respondents could select all that applied