Table 2.
Characteristics of Physicians to Whom a Survey was Mailed: Comparing Respondents and Non-Respondents
| Overall Sample (n=902) |
Respondents (n=456) |
Non- respondents (n=446) |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Gender | 0.51 | |||
| Male | 460 (51.0) | 236 (52.6) | 224 (50.7) | |
| Female | 433 (48.0) | 213 (47.4) | 220 (49.3) | |
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| Age, mean (SD) | 40.7 (7.2) | 40.3 (7.6) | 41.1 (6.9) | 0.13 |
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| Region current practice | 0.61 | |||
| South | 283 (31.4) | 149 (33.5) | 134 (30.0) | |
| Midwest | 188 (20.8) | 95 (21.4) | 93 (20.9) | |
| Northeast | 232 (25.7) | 108 (24.3) | 124 (27.8) | |
| West | 185 (20.5) | 93 (20.9) | 92 (20.6) | |
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| Practice setting type | ||||
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| Group/HMO | 471 (52.2) | 255 (28.3) | 216 (23.9) | 0.07 |
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| Small/solo | 81 (9.0) | 32 (3.5) | 49 (5.4) | |
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| City/state/federal government | 7 (0.8) | 5 (0.6) | 2 (0.2) | |
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| Medical school | 8 (0.9) | 4 (0.4) | 4 (0.4) | |