Table 1.

Characteristics of the 29 physicians who participated in the study

Characteristics	Physicians who predominantly prescribe diuretics (n = 13)	Physicians who predominantly prescribe other drug classes (n = 16)
Sex	N (%)	N (%)
Female	6 (46.1)	8 (50.0)
Male	7 (53.9)	8 (50.0)
	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD
Years of practice experience	21.9 ± 13.3	24.0 ± 5.4
Number of patients seen in 2009	1, 000.5 ± 544.3	1, 420.2 ± 743.6
Number of incident patients with uncomplicated hypertension (2009)	71.8 ± 62.9	99.3 ± 75.1
Mean proportion (%) of incident patients with uncomplicated hypertension started on diuretics (2009)	28.2% ± 11.3%	7.2% ± 4.3%