TABLE 1.

Practice characteristics of survey respondents

Characteristic	Response	n or median	% or IQR
Practice type	Academic practice or university hospital staff	158	79 %
	Private practice or community hospital staff	41	21 %
Percentage of time spent on clinical patient care		75 %	60–90 %
Years in practice		12	6–19
Fellowship training	Hepato-pancreato-biliary	54	25 %
	Surgical oncology	112	51 %
	Transplantation	44	21 %
	No fellowship	12	5 %
No. of patients monthly evaluated for GI malignancy		15	9–20
No. of patients monthly evaluated for CLM		4	2–8
Annual liver procedure volumes for any indicationa	Liver resection	30	10–50
	Radiofrequency ablation	10	5–20
Annual liver procedure volumes for CLMa	Liver resection	17	9–30
	Radiofrequency ablation	5	2–10
Proportion of CLM cases discussed at multidisciplinary tumor board		80 %	50–100 %

N number of respondents, IQR interquartile range, GI gastrointestinal, CLM colon cancer liver metastasis

^aFor nonzero volumes only