Table 3.
Patient-Physician Partnership Study: Demographic and Baseline characteristics for n = 50 physicians
| Characteristic | No. of Physicians (%) |
Mean (standard deviation) |
| Age, years | 43.0 (9.3) | |
| Women | 26 (52) | |
| Ethnicity | ||
| African American | 16 (32) | |
| Asian | 10 (20) | |
| White | 19 (38) | |
| Hispanic/other | 2 (4) | |
| Practice experience, years | 11.9 (8.4) | |
| Internal medicine | 37 (74) | |
| U.S. medical graduate | 37 (74) | |
| Board certified | 45 (90) | |
| CME in communication skills | 21 (42) | |
| CME in hypertension | 31 (63) | |
| Very confident caring for: | ||
| Socially disadvantaged | 30 (60) | |
| Minority patients | 35 (70) | |
| Hypertensive patients | 41 (82) | |
| Non-adherent patients | 17 (34) | |
| Strongly agree: | ||
| Communicate effectively | 15 (30) | |
| Gain patients' trust | 7 (14) | |
| Patients as partners in treatment | 8 (16) |