Table 1.

Survey Respondent Demographics.

	na	Percentageb		na	Percentageb
Sex			Specialty
Male	446	94.5%	Orthopedics	332	68.5%
Female	26	5.5%	Neurosurgery	144	29.7%
Age (years)			Trauma	50	10.3%
25-34	56	11.7%	Pediatric Surgery	16	3.3%
35-44	173	36.1%	Other	14	2.9%
45-54	160	33.4%	Years Practicing
55-64	73	15.2%	0-5	100	20.9%
65+	17	3.5%	5-10	116	24.3%
Geographic Region			11-15	82	17.2%
Africa	95	19.9%	16-20	68	14.2%
Asia Pacific	94	19.7%	20+	112	23.4%
Europe	116	24.3%	Practice Breakdown (%)
North America	45	9.4%	Percentage Research
South America	127	26.6%	0-25	356	74.9%
Estimated Population Hospital Serves			26-50	100	21.1%
<100 000	46	9.6%	51-75	13	2.7%
100 000-500 000	118	24.7%	76-100	6	1.3%
500 000-1 000 000	100	21.0%	Percentage Clinical
1 000 000-2 000 000	67	14.0%	0-25	12	2.5%
>2 000 000	146	30.6%	26-50	95	19.8%
Hospital Community			51-75	191	39.8%
Urban	408	85.4%	76-100	182	37.9%
Suburban	63	13.2%	Percentage Teaching
Rural	7	1.5%	0-25	334	72.5%
Practice Type			26-50	95	20.6%
Academic/University Hospital	164	34.0%	51-75	16	3.5%
“Privademic” (Academic/Private combined)	128	26.6%	76-100	16	3.5%
Private Group, <10 Practitioners	58	12.0%	Total Respondents	485	100.0%
Private Group, >10 Practitioners	20	4.1%
Individual Practice	35	7.3%
Government/Military Hospital	34	7.1%
Hospital Employee	29	6.0%
Other	14	2.9%

^a Number of respondents/votes.

^b Percentages were calculated based on total responses per question, not total number of survey responses.