Table 1.
Physician and Practice Characteristics
| Physician and Practice Characteristics | Respondents, % |
Nonrespondents, % |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatricians, (n = 364) |
FP, (n = 218) | Pediatricians, (n = 78) |
FP, (n = 169) | |
| Female gender | 64 | 50* | 65 | 35* |
| Setting | ||||
| Private practice | 77 | 70 | 77 | 75 |
| Hospital or clinic | 21 | 24 | 18 | 21 |
| HMO | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| Location | ||||
| Urban, inner-city | 15 | 36 | 14 | 37 |
| Urban, not inner-city | 75 | 52 | 77 | 58 |
| Rural | 10 | 12 | 9 | 5 |
| Region | ||||
| Midwest | 20 | 29* | 18 | 26* |
| Northeast | 23 | 17 | 23 | 16 |
| South | 33 | 29 | 39 | 41 |
| West | 24 | 25 | 21 | 17 |
| Age, mean ± SD,y | 49.3 ±10.7 | 53.5 ± 9.7 | 49.3 ± 10.6 | 52.1 ± 10.3 |
| Administer HPV vaccine in the office | ||||
| To female patients | 99 | 87 | — | — |
| To male patients | 98 | 81 | — | — |
| Proportion of 11-to 18-year-old patients | ||||
| <10% | 2 | 44 | — | — |
| 10%–29% | 22 | 50 | — | — |
| 30%–49% | 67 | 5 | — | — |
| ≥50% | 9 | 1 | — | — |
| Proportion of patients with Medicaid or CHIP | ||||
| <10% | 23 | 38 | — | — |
| 10%–24% | 21 | 28 | — | — |
| 25%–49% | 20 | 22 | — | — |
| ≥50% | 35 | 12 | — | — |
| Proportion of Hispanic/Latino patients | ||||
| <10% | 42 | 62 | — | — |
| 10% to 24% | 28 | 23 | — | — |
| ≥25% | 30 | 15 | — | — |
| Proportion of black/African- American patients | ||||
| <10% | 40 | 64 | — | — |
| 10% to 24% | 36 | 22 | — | — |
| ≥25% | 24 | 14 | — | — |
CHIP, Children’s Health Insurance Program; HMO, health maintenance organization.
*
P ≤ .05 for comparison between responders and nonresponders. A dash indicates that data are not available.