Table 1.
Characteristics of the 67 participants
| Characteristic | Total N = 67 |
MDs N = 34 |
MAs and RNs N = 18 |
Patients N = 15 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age—mean (SD) | 46 (SD = 12) | 39 (11) | 40 (SD = 9) | 52 (SD = 13) |
| Age range | 27–72 | 27–68 | 27–56 | 28–72 |
| Age group | ||||
| 26–35 | 21 | 14 | 6 | 1 |
| 36–45 | 19 | 10 | 6 | 3 |
| 46 + | 25 | 8 | 5 | 11 |
| Missing | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Sex | ||||
| Female | 49 | 21 | 14 | 12 |
| Male | 18 | 13 | 4 | 3 |
| Hispanic | ||||
| No | 50 | 30 | 10 | 10 |
| Yes | 14 | 2 | 8 | 4 |
| Missing | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Race | ||||
| Caucasian | 23 | 19 | 2 | 1 |
| Asian | 14 | 13 | 1 | 0 |
| Black | 15 | 0 | 6 | 9 |
| Other | 10 | 0 | 6 | 4 |
| Missing | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| Medical specialty | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Internal medicine | 29 | |||
| Family medicine | 2 | |||
| Missing | 3 | |||
| Patients seen per week | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| 0–50 | 18 | |||
| 51–100 | 11 | |||
| > 100 | 1 | |||
| Missing | 4 | |||