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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Surgery. 2019 Feb 18;165(5):1035–1045. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2019.01.002

Table 1.

Physician Characteristics.

Physician characteristics N=20
Female sex, n (%) 5 (25)
Age (years), n (%)
 <=30 2 (10)
 31–40 10 (50)
 41–50 4 (20)
 >50 4 (20)
Attending physicians, n (%) 14 (70)
Specialty, n (%)
 Anesthesiology/Emergency Medicine 16 (80)
 Surgery 4 (20)
Years since graduation, mean (SD) 13 (10)
High numeracy score (≥9)*, n (%) 18 (90)
Cognitive Reflection Test score, n (%)
 Low score (0): Non-reflective thinker with unquestioning reliance on intuition 3 (15)
 Intermediate score (1–2): Balance between reflective thinking and intuition 14 (70)
 High score (3): Reflective thinker whose initial intuition is tempered by analysis 3 (15)
*

The numeracy assessment is a measure of ability to understand and use numeric data

Cognitive Reflection Test is a validated measure of decision-making preference; differentiating impulsive decision-making preferences from reflective decision-making preferences