Table 1 Respondent characteristics.
Characteristics | Doctors (n = 656) |
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Age in years (mean (SD)) | 51 (28–82) |
Years in practice (mean (SD)) | 25 (1–62) |
Sex | |
Male (%) | 546 (84.7) |
Female (%) | 99 (15.3) |
Specialty | |
Family medicine (%) | 195 (34.7) |
General medicine (%) | 188 (33.5) |
Internal medicine (%) | 179 (31.9) |
Primary practice site | |
Hospital (%) | 258 (38.4) |
Solo practice (%) | 182 (28.2) |
Primary‐care group practice (%) | 164 (25.4) |
Multispecialty group (%) | 23 (3.6) |
Other (%) | 28 (4.4) |
Admitting hospital | |
Public (%) | 572 (93.9) |
Private (%) | 21 (3.4) |
Mixed (%) | 16 (2.6) |
For profit (%) | 81 (16.5) |
Not for profit (%) | 406 (82.5) |
Teaching hospital | 264 (45.6) |
Number of people in a 20‐mile radius | |
<50 000 (%) | 108 (16.7) |
50 000–100 000 (%) | 125 (19.4) |
100 000–250 000 (%) | 155 (24) |
250 000–500 000 (%) | 100 (15.5) |
>500 000 | 157 (24.3) |
Training in ethics | |
Ethics in medical school (%) | 224 (35.6) |
Attended ethics conference (%) | 174 (27.6) |
Intensive ethics course (%) | 36 (5.9) |
Former or current clinical ethics committee member (%) | 50 (7.8) |
Confidence about knowledge in ethics | |
Not at all or not very confident (%) | 121 (17.5) |
Somewhat confident (%) | 347 (53.8) |
Very confident (%) | 185 (28.7) |
Access to ethics consultation for individual cases (%) | 103 (17.6) |
Ever used ethics support service (%) | 81 (13.6) |
Data are n (%) unless otherwise stated.