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. 2017 Sep 13;17:163. doi: 10.1186/s12909-017-0982-4

Table 1.

Physician Characteristics by Study Group

Characteristic Control (n = 61) Intervention (n = 60) Combined (n = 121) P a
Age, mean (SD) 48.7 (9.8) 49.1 (10.6) 48.9 (10.1) 0.81
Years since graduation from medical school mean (SD) 21.7 (9.7) 21.3 (12.3) 21.5 (11.0) 0.86
Female, % 34.4 46.7 40.5 0.20
White race, % 67.2 70.0 68.6 0.85
Hispanic, % 4.9 8.3 6.6 0.49
Those with clinical experience managing inherited breast cancer, % 49.2 53.3 51.2 0.72

aThe significance of mean differences between study groups were examined with t-tests. Differences for the categorical demographic and experience variables were examined with Fisher’s exact test. Nonsignificant differences are suggestive of successful randomization of participants to the two study arms