Table 2.
Frequency of Tumor Board Attendance by Physician Characteristics
| Characteristic | Frequency of Tumor Board Participation |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weekly (%) | Monthly (%) | Less Than Monthly (%) | Not at All/Missing (%) | P | |
| Physician sex | .06 | ||||
| Male | 55 | 27 | 14 | 3 | |
| Female | 71 | 16 | 10 | 3 | |
| Teaching involvement, days/month | .22 | ||||
| 0-1 | 52 | 28 | 17 | 3 | |
| 2-5 | 64 | 24 | 9 | 3 | |
| 6-15 | 69 | 19 | 11 | 0 | |
| > 15 | 69 | 20 | 9 | 2 | |
| Patient volume | < .01 | ||||
| No. of new cancer patients during last month | |||||
| Mean | 25 | 16 | 9 | 14 | |
| Range | 1-180 | 2-100 | 0-80 | 2-40 | |
| No. of offices at which physician sees patients | .11 | ||||
| 1 | 56 | 27 | 15 | 2 | |
| 2 | 57 | 27 | 10 | 6 | |
| ≥ 3 | 73 | 15 | 12 | 0 | |
| Reimbursement | .00 | ||||
| ≤ 50% fee for service | 68 | 19 | 9 | 4 | |
| > 50% fee for service | 46 | 34 | 19 | 2 | |
| Practice type | < .01 | ||||
| Solo | 36 | 36 | 23 | 5 | |
| County/medical school/university | 78 | 11 | 7 | 3 | |
| HMO | 64 | 25 | 9 | 2 | |
| Single-specialty group | 67 | 21 | 10 | 2 | |
| Multiple-specialty group | 68 | 23 | 9 | 0 | |
| Ownership interest in practice | .00 | ||||
| Full | 41 | 36 | 19 | 4 | |
| Part | 61 | 25 | 12 | 2 | |
| None | 83 | 9 | 7 | 1 | |
| Practice size | .06 | ||||
| 1-49 | 56 | 27 | 14 | 3 | |
| ≥ 50 | 71 | 20 | 9 | 0 | |
| If physician did attend tumor board in the last 12 mo, please think about the most helpful meeting. Did this meeting… | |||||
| Serve a pretreatment planning function? | < .01 | ||||
| Yes | 70 | 19 | 11 | 0 | |
| No | 31 | 50 | 19 | 0 | |
| Review all participants' cases versus unusual/controversial cases? | < .01 | ||||
| Yes | 72 | 20 | 8 | 0 | |
| No | 47 | 34 | 20 | 0 | |
| Review only breast cancer cases versus variety of cancer cases? | < .01 | ||||
| Yes | 69 | 20 | 11 | 0 | |
| No | 54 | 31 | 15 | 0 | |
Abbreviation: HMO, health maintenance organization.