Table 3.

Unadjusted Rate of Physician-Reported Adherence to Recommendations Against Ovarian Cancer Screening by Patient, Physician, and Practice Characteristics

	All physicians (n = 497)
Total	71.8
Patient characteristics
Age (years)
35	72.4
51	71.3
Race
African American	72.6
Caucasian	70.1
Insurance typea
Private	67.8
Medicaid	76.5
Requested ovarian cancer screeningb
Yes	63.9
No	79.7
Physician and practice characteristics
Age (years)
30–39	78.7
40–49	73.4
50–64	66.7
Sex
Female	73.8
Male	70.4
Specialtyc
Family medicine	72.8
Obstetrics-gynecology	60.5
General internal medicine	76.0
Board certification
Yes	73.1
No	58.3
Years in practice
0–10	75.2
11–20	72.7
21+	69.6
Practice typeb
Solo practice	57.4
Group practice or other practice type	76.3
Weekly average number of patients
1–60	76.9
61–90	75.6
91+	65.5
Involved in clinical teaching
Yes	72.9
No	70.8
Geographic location
Small rural/remote rural	66.8
Large rural	69.0
Urban	72.6
Census division
New England	59.5
Middle Atlantic	65.5
East North Central	80.8
West North Central	67.8
South Atlantic	76.2
East South Central	68.0
West South Central	63.4
Mountain	64.2
Pacific	77.0
Level of risk taking
Low (6–17)	71.8
Medium (18–24)	71.7
High (25+)	71.8
Fear of malpractice
Low (2–4)	73.5
Medium (5–7)	77.2
High (8+)	68.8
USPSTF among top three sources of cancer screening informationb
Yes	79.6
No	623
NIH/NCI among top three sources of cancer screening informationa
Yes	65.9
No	75.0
ACOG among top three sources of cancer screening information
Yes	67.4
No	73.9
ACS among top three sources of cancer screening information
Yes	70.6
No	74.0
TVU is clinically effective in screening for ovarian cancerb
Agree	48.1
Disagree	81.0
CA125 is clinically effective in screening for ovarian cancerb
Agree	40.2
Disagree	79.3
Either TVU or CA125 is clinically effective in screening for ovarian cancerb
Agree	47.7
Disagree	82.9

^ap ≤ 0.05

^bp ≤ 0.001

^cp ≤ 0.01.

Results were adjusted using weights to represent the specialty distribution of the practicing U.S. physician population of family physicians, general internists, and obstetrician-gynecologists.