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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Patient Educ Couns. 2010 Jul 27;80(3):358–363. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2010.06.034

Table 4.

Physician Characteristics by Patient-reported Use of a Shared Decision-Making Process for Colorectal Cancer Screening.

Physician Characteristic No SDM (N= 193) SDM (N= 171) P value
Mean Age in Years (Std Dev) 49.9 (7.7) 49.2 (7.5) 0.13
Female (%) 51% 61% <0.01
Race (%) African American 37% 59% 0.02
White 20% 16%
Other 43% 25%
Specialty (%) Family Medicine 32% 30% 0.80
Internal Medicine 68% 70%