Skip to main content
[Preprint]. 2023 Jul 27:2023.07.26.23293157. [Version 1] doi: 10.1101/2023.07.26.23293157

Table 1:

Characteristics of Physician Respondents

Gender Female: 53 %
Male : 47%

Age 35 ± 9.5 years
Years in practice 10 ± 8.6 years

Specialty/Sub-Specialty training Psychiatry 64% Pain medicine 0.36%
Other 17% Palliative care 1.1%
Family Medicine 10 % Hematology/Oncology 1.8%
Internal Medicine 5.6% Infectious Diseases 2.1%
Neurology 4.6% Addiction 11%
Obstetrics-Gynecology 2.5% Other 32%
General Surgery 2.2% No sub-specialty training 47%

Practice Setting Medical School/University 52% Inpatient. 48%
Other 34% Outpatient 52%
Individual private practice 6.9%
Group private practice 3.8%
Medical home 1.9%
Veterans Affairs facility 1.2%

Patient Population treated Child and Adolescent 26%
Adult 68%
Geriatric 28%

Experience prescribing medical cannabis Recommend 0.71%
Refer out 2.5%
Do not recommend 12.1%
Do not know enough. 33.2%
Never recommended but open 51.4%