Table 1.

Study participant characteristics

Characteristic	N = 25
Mean age in years (range)	44 (31–63)
Female (%)	16 (64)
Caucasian (%)	11 (44)
Physician (%)	23 (92)
Mean years of clinical experience (range)*	10 (0–31)
Mean percent of patients estimated to  have chronic non-cancer pain in each  provider’s panel (range)	42 (5–90)

^*Participants were asked to report number of years of clinical experience following fellowship training. Five participants were geriatric medicine fellows at the time of the study.