Table 3.

Characteristics of respondent laboratories

	Testing Labs No. (%)	Referring Labs No. (%)	p-value
Geographic location
Metropolitan/central city	11/17 (64.7)	13/40 (32.5)	0.024
Metropolitan/suburban	4/17 (23.5)	9/40 (22.5)	1.000*
Small city/town	2/17 (11.8)	16/40 (40.0)	0.036
Rural	0/17 (0)	2/40 (5.0)	1.000*
Size of catchment area
0 – 500,000	2/16 (12.5)	21/37 (56.8)	0.003
500,000 – 2,000,000	8/16 (50.0)	13/37 (35.1)	0.310
Greater than 2,000,000	6/16 (37.5)	3/37 (8.1)	0.016*
Type of setting
Community hospital	3/16 (18.8)	26/38 (68.4)	0.001
Academic Health Science Centre	11/16 (68.8)	12/38 (31.6)	0.012
Research laboratory	2/16 (12.5)	0/38 (0)	0.084*
Type of laboratory
General pathology	1/16 (6.3)	22/38 (57.9)	< 0.001
Anatomical pathology	1/16 (6.3)	9/38 (23.7)	0.249*
Hematopathology	2/16 (12.5)	0/38 (0)	0.084*
Hematology	1/16 (6.3)	3/38 (7.9)	1.000*
Cancer cytogenetics	1/16 (6.3)	0/38 (0)	1.000*
Cytology	0/16 (0)	2/38 (5.3)	1.000*
Flow cytometry	0/16 (0)	2/38 (5.3)	1.000*
Cytogenetics	5/16 (31.3)	0/38 (0)	0.001*
Molecular cancer genetics	1/16 (6.3)	0/38 (0)	0.296*
Molecular genetics	4/16 (25.0)	0/38 (0)	0.006*

* Fisher exact test