Table 1.
Physician Characteristics by Performing Home Visits to Medicare Beneficiaries in 2006 and 2011.
| 2006 (N = 22 186) |
2011 (N = 22 186) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home Visits (5.6%, n =1232) | No Home Visits (94.4%, n = 20 954) | Home Visits (4.7%, n = 1046) | No Home Visits (95.3%, n = 21 140) | |
| Age in years in 2011, mean (SD) | 55.3 (8.6) | 52.6 (8.8)* | 54.6 (8.7) | 52.7 (8.8)* |
| Male gender, % | 77.0 | 77.4 | 73.6 | 77.6* |
| MD, % | 88.3 | 93.6* | 89.6 | 93.5* |
| International medical graduate, % | 18.0 | 16.3 | 17.5 | 16.4 |
| Specialty, % | ||||
| Family medicine | 45.7 | 14.8* | 47.2 | 15.0* |
| General internal medicine | 32.4 | 13.3* | 32.7 | 13.4* |
| General practice | 4.4 | 0.9* | 4.2 | 0.9* |
| Geriatric medicine | 2.1 | 0.4* | 3.2 | 0.4* |
| Other | 15.4 | 70.7* | 12.8 | 70.3* |
| Provides nursing home care, % | 66.0 | 15.0* | 64.3 | 12.2* |
| Provides domiciliary care, % | 14.7 | 1.2* | 20.5 | 1.2* |
| Solo practice, % | 27.4 | 14.5* | 27.5 | 14.6* |
| Rural, % | 36.0 | 19.2* | 35.6 | 19.4* |
*
P < .05.