Table 1.
Characteristics | No. (%) |
Fellowship program setting | |
Community hospital | 17 (15) |
University hospital | 75 (68) |
Interventional pulmonary fellowship | |
Yes | 10 (9) |
No | 99 (91) |
Identifiable IP | |
Yes | 77 (70) |
No | 33 (30) |
Single attending physician supervising < 50% of bronchoscopies | |
Yes | 14 (13) |
No | 96 (87) |
EBUS equipment available | |
Yes | 98 (89) |
No | 12 (11) |
Staff performing EBUS | |
Pulmonologist | 94 (97) |
Thoracic surgeon | 31 (32) |
Data are presented as No. (%). EBUS = endobronchial ultrasound; IP = interventional pulmonologist.