Table 1: Demographic and practice characteristics of physicians in the QIIP and control groups.
| Characteristic | QIIP group n = 53 |
Control group n = 1178 |
p value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Male sex, no. (%) | 34 (64.2) | 699 (59.3) | 0.5 |
| Canadian graduate, no. (%) | 49 (92.4) | 1035 (87.9) | 0.3 |
| Rurality Index of Ontario category, no. (%) | 0.1 | ||
| Major urban (1-9) | 26 (49.0) | 644 (54.7) | |
| Suburban (10-39) | 12 (22.6) | 330 (28.0) | |
| Rural (≥ 40) | 15 (28.3) | 190 (16.1) | |
| Missing | 0 (0.0) | 14 (1.2) | |
| Rurality Index of Ontario score, mean ± SD | 27.00 ± 30.86 | 17.95 ± 23.12 | 0.006 |
| Age, mean ± SD | 49.85 ± 8.40 | 48.27 ± 9.47 | 0.2 |
| Years since graduation, mean ± SD | 24.9 ± 9.12 | 22.5 ± 9.87 | 0.2 |
| No. of patients, mean ± SD | 1475 ± 620 | 1410 ± 694 | 0.5 |
Note: QIIP = Quality Improvement and Innovation Partnership, SD = standard deviation..