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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 30.
Published in final edited form as: Genet Med. 2016 Feb 11;18(10):1011–1019. doi: 10.1038/gim.2015.207

Table 1. Physician and Patient Characteristics.

Physician Characteristics Frequency (%)
(n=27)
Program
 GI 52
 Thoracic 48
Principal Investigator
 Clinical trials 59
 Translational research 44
 Basic science 15
 Outcomes/health services or cancer epidemiology 22
Gender
 Male 78
 Female 22

Median IQR

Year completed fellowship 2007 1999-2011
# Unique patients seen per month 50 28-70
Percent of professional time spent in:
 Patient care 40 30-75
 Research 40 19-60
 Teaching 5 5-10
 Administration 5 0-15

Patient Characteristics Frequency (%)
(n=167)*

Age at consent, mean (SD) 59.8 (12.0)
Gender
 Female 97 (58)
Cancer
 Lung 89 (53)
 Colorectal 78 (47)
Race**
 White 130 (85)
 Non-white 19 (13)
Hispanic/Latino** 3 (2)
Education**
 ≥ College graduate 68 (44)
Overall health, mean (SD) ** 5.2 (1.1)
Prior genetic testing ‡ **
 Yes 20 (13)
 No 122 (80)
 Don't Know 11 (7)
Attitude toward genetic testing, mean (SD) §** 1.3 (0.7)
*

Percentages may not add to 100% due to missing responses and/or rounding.

**

n=153 who completed baseline survey

Seven point scale from very poor (1) to excellent (7)1

Self reported

§

Attitude score range 1-5, lower numbers correspond to more positive attitudes2

1

Aaronson, N. K., Ahmedzai, S., Bergman, B., Bullinger, M., Cull, A., Duez, N. J., et al. (1993). The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer QLQ-C30: a quality-of-life instrument for use in international clinical trials in oncology. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 85(5), 365–376.

2

Michie, S., di Lorenzo, E., Lane, R., Armstrong, K., & Sanderson, S. (2004). Genetic information leaflets: Influencing attitudes towards genetic testing. Genetics in Medicine, 6(4), 219–225.