Table 5.

Factors affecting providers’ choice of practice location

Factors	Obstetrician-Gynecologists (n=330)	Family Physicians (n=416)	Nurse-Midwives (n=153)	P value*
Risk of malpractice litigation (%)				<0.01
High impact	20.8	16.8	17.2
Moderate impact	33.4	22.3	20.5
Small impact	26.1	29.6	34.4
No impact	16.1	28.8	25.8
Not applicable	3.6	2.6	2.0
Affordability/Availability of medical liability insurance coverage (%)				<0.01
High impact	20.5	15.7	17.2
Moderate impact	29.3	21.0	26.5
Small impact	27.4	29.9	18.5
No impact	18.3	27.7	28.5
Not applicable	4.5	5.7	9.3

Percentages may not add up to exactly 100% due to rounding. Less than 2.8% of the respondents had missing data for each of the variables.

^*Chi-square tests for differences across specialties were conducted without the “Not applicable” category.