Table 1.

Physician practice characteristics by specialty (N = 26)

	Practices, no. (%)
Characteristic practice	Internal medicine	Family
Number	16	10
Physician sex, male	14 (88)	9 (90)
Location of practice
Sacramento, CA	3 (19)	8 (80)
San Francisco, CA	6 (38)	0
Redwood City, CA	4 (25)	0
Santa Cruz, CA	2 (12)	1 (10)
Phoenix, AZ	1 (6)	1 (10)
Type of practice
Multispecialty	5 (31)	1 (10)
Single-specialty	9 (56)	7 (70)
Solo	2 (12)	2 (20)
Active no. of patients >600	12 (75)	3 (30)
Patients seen per day ≥22	12 (75)	4 (40)
Minutes spent per visit ≤17	13 (81)	8 (80)
Managed-care volume ≥50%	10 (62)	10 (100)