Table 1.
Characteristics of Respondents Versus Nonrespondents
| Respondents | Nonrespondents | ||
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| Surgeon Characteristics | (n = 200 [23.6%]) | (n = 646 [76.4%]) | p Value |
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| n (%) | n (%) | ||
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| Practice type | <0.001 | ||
| General thoracic surgery | 167 (83.5) | 349 (54.0) | |
| Cardiothoracic surgery with mostly cardiac cases | 33 (16.5) | 277 (42.9) | |
| Missing | 20 (3.1) | ||
| Practice setting | <0.001 | ||
| University/academic | 137 (68.5) | 305 (47.2) | |
| Private/health maintenance organization | 63 (31.5) | 336 (52.0) | |
| Missing | 5 (0.8) | ||
| Years in practice | 0.09 | ||
| 0–9 | 63 (31.5) | 149 (23.1) | |
| 10–19 | 69 (34.5) | 233 (36.1) | |
| ≥20 | 68 (34.0) | 243 (37.6) | |
| Missing | 21 (3.2) | ||
| Age, years | <0.001 | ||
| 30–39 | 13 (6.5) | 22 (3.4) | |
| 40–49 | 88 (44.0) | 181 (28.0) | |
| 50–59 | 65 (32.5) | 224 (34.7) | |
| 60–69 | 30 (15.0) | 147(22.8) | |
| ≥70 | 4 (2.0) | 30 (4.6) | |
| Missing | 42 (6.5) | ||
| Sex | <0.001 | ||
| Female | 34 (17.0) | 41 (6.4) | |
| Male | 166 (83.0) | 600 (92.9) | |
| Missing | 5 (0.7) | ||