Table 1.
Demographic and practice characteristics
| Reproductive health providers† |
Family Practice |
Pediatrics/ Adolescent Medicine |
Emergency Medicine |
Internal Medicine** |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |
| Total | 458 (28.1) | 220 (13.5) | 295 (18.1) | 192 (11.8) | 463 (28.4) |
| % Women of Reproductive Age in Practice | |||||
| All or most | 389 (85.3) | 21 (9.6) | 21 (7.1) | 3 (1.6) | 28 (6.1) |
| About half | 46 (10.1) | 111 (50.5) | 45 (15.3) | 110 (57.9) | 140 (30.4) |
| Small proportion | 21 (4.6) | 88 (40.0) | 229 (77.6) | 77 (40.5) | 292 (63.5) |
| Provider Type | |||||
| CNM, PA, NP | 113 (24.8) | 32 (14.6) | 41 (14.0) | 43 (22.5) | 73 (16.0) |
| Resident or Fellow | 104 (22.8) | 28 (12.8) | 78 (26.7) | 28 (14.7) | 107 (23.4) |
| Staff Physician | 239 (52.4) | 159 (72.6) | 173 (59.3) | 120 (62.8) | 277 (60.6) |
| Age | |||||
| 20–39 | 198 (43.5) | 91 (41.7) | 135 (45.9) | 102 (53.1) | 226 (49.0) |
| 40–59 | 189 (41.5) | 103 (46.8) | 110 (37.4) | 78 (40.6) | 185 (40.1) |
| 60+ | 68 (15.0) | 26 (11.8) | 49 (16.7) | 12 (6.3) | 50 (10.9) |
| Gender | |||||
| Female | 377 (84.1) | 130 (59.9) | 228 (78.4) | 93 (49.0) | 275 (60.0) |
| Male | 71 (15.9) | 87 (40.1) | 63 (21.7) | 97 (51.0) | 183 (40.0) |
| Years in Practice | |||||
| In training | 59 (12.9) | 14 (6.4) | 39 (13.4) | 11 (5.8) | 44 (9.6) |
| 1–5 | 113 (24.7) | 57 (26.2) | 81 (27.8) | 59 (30.1) | 153 (33.3) |
| 6–15 | 113 (24.7) | 70 (32.1) | 67 (23.0) | 72 (37.7) | 119 (25.9) |
| 16+ | 172 (37.6) | 77 (35.3) | 104 (35.7) | 49 (25.7) | 143 (31.2) |
| Practice Setting *** | |||||
| Academic Center | 332 (72.5) | 115 (52.3) | 187 (63.4) | 153 (79.7) | 277 (59.8) |
| Community Hospital | 70 (15.3) | 27 (12.3) | 24 (8.1) | 61 (31.8) | 37 (8.0) |
| Large Private Practice (>10 providers) | 49 (10.7) | 39 (17.7) | 53 (18.0) | 10 (5.2) | 107 (23.1) |
| Small Private providers (≤10 providers) | 35 (7.6) | 35 (15.9) | 29 (9.8) | 1 (0.5) | 19 (4.1) |
| Veteran’s Hospital | 1 (0.2) | 7 (3.2) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (1.6) | 28 (6.0) |
| Family Planning Clinic | 26 (5.7) | 2 (0.9) | 2 (0.7) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| Religiously-affiliated Institution | 7 (1.5) | 1 (0.5) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (1.0) | 1 (0.2) |
| Other | 20 (4.4) | 15 (4.4) | 13 (4.4) | 1 (0.5) | 22 (4.8) |
*
Specialty categories are exhaustive and mutually exclusive; respondents who selected more than one specialty are categorized according to the hierarchy listed here
†
Includes gynecology and women’s health
**
Internal medicine includes internal medicine/pediatrics
***
Respondents chose all practice settings that apply, so the total exceeds 100%