Table 2.
Physician and Facility Characteristics
| Characteristics of physician and facility | |
|---|---|
| Physician-level categorical variables | Weighted frequency (%) N = 461 |
| Length of VHA service* | |
| <5 years | 47% |
| 5 to 9 years | 23% |
| 10 to 14 years | 11% |
| >15 years | 18% |
| Missing | 0% |
| Specialty | |
| Internal medicine | 82% |
| Geriatrics | 7% |
| Family practice | 11% |
| Male gender | 59% |
| Missing | 0% |
| Has academic appointment | 55% |
| Missing | 3% |
| Affiliated with an oversampled site (Greater Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and Minneapolis) | |
| Yes | 21% |
| No | 79% |
| Physician-level continuous variables | Median (IQR) |
| Number of half-days of direct patient care | 9 (5–10) |
| Missing | 0.43% |
| Facility-level categorical variables | Frequency (%) N = 197 |
| Years since medical school graduation | 19 (11–27) |
| Missing | 0.21% |
| Academic affiliation* | |
| Yes | 61% |
| Missing | 21% |
| Located in metropolitan area | 81% |
| Missing | 0% |
| Facility-level continuous variables | Median (IQR) |
| Number of primary care visits (FY’04) | 148,000 (65,000–296,000) |
| Missing | 1.02% |
*Percentages for this variable do not sum to 100% because of rounding.