Table 1.
Description of Clinician (n = 12) and Patient (n = 30) Samples
| Urban Clinics | Rural Clinics | |
|---|---|---|
| Clinicians, n (n = 12) | ||
| Sex | ||
| Female | 5 | 1 |
| Male | 4 | 2 |
| Race | ||
| White | 6 | 3 |
| African American | 2 | 0 |
| Asian | 1 | 0 |
| Specialty | ||
| Family medicine | 5 | 3 |
| Internal medicine | 3 | 0 |
| General Medicine | 1 | 0 |
| Years of practice | ||
| <10 | 2 | 2 |
| 10–20 | 6 | 0 |
| >20 | 1 | 1 |
| System type | ||
| Not-for-profit | 8 | 3 |
| Academic | 1 | 0 |
| Patients, n (n = 30) | ||
| Sex | ||
| Female | 17 | 3 |
| Male | 4 | 6 |
| Race | ||
| White | 13 | 9 |
| African American | 8 | 0 |
| Age, years | ||
| 18–30 | 0 | 1 |
| 31–40 | 4 | 1 |
| 41–50 | 3 | 0 |
| 51–60 | 6 | 4 |
| 61–70 | 6 | 2 |
| 71+ | 2 | 1 |
| Paina | ||
| Diagnoses | ||
| Osteoarthritis | 7 | 3 |
| Spondylosis | 6 | 0 |
| Low back pain | 2 | 3 |
| Radiculopathy | 2 | 3 |
| Spinal Stenosis | 4 | 0 |
| Fibromyalgia | 2 | 1 |
| Rheumatoid arthritis | 2 | 0 |
| Location(s) | ||
| Spine | 16 | 2 |
| Knee | 6 | 1 |
| Shoulder | 2 | 2 |
| Hip | 2 | 1 |
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Some patients had multiple pain diagnoses and pain locations. As a result, totals shown are more than the number of patients.