Table 6.
Latent Class Model Profile of Primary Care Providers (Standard Errors in Parentheses)
| Class I: nonreferring, minimally involved % (SE) | Class II: referring, actively involved % (SE) | Class III: referring, moderately involved % (SE) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demographics | |||
| Age 50+ | 48% (0.03) | 53% (0.04) | 49% (0.04) |
| Age <50 | 52% (0.03) | 47% (0.04) | 51% (0.04) |
| Ob/Gyn | 7% (0.02) | 32% (0.03) | 35% (0.04) |
| Family med/internal med/other | 93% (0.02) | 68% (0.03) | 65% (0.04) |
| Teaching hospital | 41% (0.03) | 47% (0.04) | 61% (0.04) |
| Nonteaching hospital | 59% (0.03) | 53% (0.04) | 39% (0.04) |
| Female | 30% (0.03) | 46% (0.04) | 46% (0.04) |
| Male | 70% (0.03) | 54% (0.04) | 54% (0.04) |
| >10 miles access to GC | 82% (0.03) | 33% (0.05) | 23% (0.05) |
| ≤10 miles access to GC | 18% (0.03) | 67% (0.05) | 77% (0.05) |
| Practice barriers | |||
| Sufficient tools to assess risk for cancer | |||
| Always/often | 28% (0.03) | 61% (0.06) | 8% (0.02) |
| Sometimes/rarely/never | 72% (0.03) | 39% (0.06) | 92% (0.02) |
| Uses pedigree or statistical tools for risk assessment | |||
| Yes | 26% (0.03) | 60% (0.04) | 31% (0.04) |
| No | 74% (0.03) | 40% (0.04) | 69% (0.04) |
| Comfort with screening/prevention recommendations | |||
| Very/somewhat comfortable providing screening | 62% (0.04) | 100% (a) | 25% (0.10) |
| Neither comfortable nor uncomfortable, somewhat uncomfortable, and very uncomfortable | 38% (0.04) | 0% (a) | 75% (.10) |
| Referral | |||
| Yes | 8% (0.05) | 83% (0.05) | 93% (0.05) |
| No | 92% (0.05) | 17% (0.05) | 7% (0.05) |
| Percent of sample | 44% (0.04) | 34% (0.04) | 22% (0.03) |
a
Standard errors are undefined for probabilities on the boundary of the parameter space (0 or 1).