Table 1.
Respondent Characteristics
| Characteristic | Percentage (n = 428) |
|---|---|
| Male | 74 |
| Clinician type | |
| Physician | 99 |
| Clinical specialty | |
| Pulmonary/critical care/sleep | 91 |
| Primary care/internal medicine | 6 |
| Thoracic surgery | 1 |
| Years since completing clinical training | |
| Currently in training | 15 |
| ≤5 | 15 |
| 6–10 | 15 |
| 11–20 | 23 |
| >20 | 33 |
| Outpatient versus inpatient effort | |
| Exclusively outpatient | 7 |
| Mostly outpatient | 51 |
| Mostly inpatient | 42 |
| Effort spent on clinical activity | |
| <25% | 9 |
| 25–49% | 16 |
| 50–74% | 25 |
| ≥75% | 51 |
| Practice type | |
| Academic | 64 |
| Community | 24 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | 7 |
| Health Maintenance Organization | 3 |
| Practice setting | |
| Urban | 74 |
| Suburban | 21 |
| Rural | 5 |
| Practice location | |
| United States: Northeast | 28 |
| United States: South | 12 |
| United States: Midwest | 21 |
| United States: West | 14 |
| Canada | 8 |
| Mexico, Central, South America | 4 |
| Europe | 6 |
| Asia | 4 |
| Other | 3 |