Table 1.
Physician Characteristics by Study Group
| Characteristic | Control (n = 61) |
Intervention (n = 60) |
Combined (n = 121) |
P* |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age, mean (SD) | 48.7 (9.8) | 49.1 (10.6) | 48.9 (10.1) | 0.81 |
| Years since MD, mean (SD) | 21.7 (9.7) | 21.3 (12.3) | 21.5 (11.0) | 0.86 |
| Female, % | 34.4 | 46.7 | 40.5 | 0.20 |
| White race, % | 67.2 | 70.0 | 68.6 | 0.85 |
| Hispanic, % | 4.9 | 8.3 | 6.6 | 0.49 |
| Experience, either in physician practice or personally, with inherited breast cancer, % | 49.2 | 53.3 | 51.2 | 0.72 |
* The significance of mean differences between study groups were examined with t tests. Differences for the categorical demographic and experience variables were examined with Fisher’s exact test. Nonsignificant differences are suggestive of successful randomization of participants to the two study arms.