Table 1.
Variable | Respondents |
Role | |
Pulmonologist | 111 (70) |
Surgeon | 27 (17) |
Other | 20 (13) |
Sex | |
Male | 112 (71) |
Female | 46 (29) |
Age, mean (SD), y | 45.1 (8.6) |
Years in practice, mean (SD), y | 11.3 (9) |
Transplants/y at center | |
1-9 | 27 (17.2) |
10-19 | 40 (25.2) |
20-29 | 17 (10.8) |
30-39 | 22 (14.0) |
40-49 | 17 (10.8) |
> 50 | 34 (21.7) |
Practice location | |
United States | 99 (62.7) |
Non-United States | 59 (37.3) |
Africa | 1 (0.6) |
Asia | 6 (3.8) |
Australia | 5 (3.2) |
Canada | 13 (8.2) |
Europe | 34 (21.5) |
Stage of care | |
Patients referred for lung transplant | 141 (89.2) |
Patients listed for lung transplant | 139 (88.0) |
Lung transplant surgery | 48 (30.4) |
Lung transplant recipients immediately after surgery | 138 (87.3) |
Outpatient/long-term follow-up of lung transplant recipients | 130 (82.3) |
None of the above | 3 (1.9) |
Other clinical activities constituting > 10% of practice | |
Critical care | 83 (52.5) |
Palliative/hospice care | 9 (5.7) |
End-stage lung disease (not transplant candidates) | 74 (46.8) |
Data are presented as No. (%) unless indicated otherwise. n < 158 for items not answered by all transplant physicians in our respondent group. Percentages exceed 100% for items with multiple nonexclusive response options.