TABLE I.
Characteristics of 510 Survey Respondents
| Characteristic | N (%) |
| Sex | |
| Male | 409 (80) |
| Female | 99 (19) |
| Not answered | 2 (0.4) |
| Training level | |
| Resident | 195 (38) |
| Fellow | 48 (9.4) |
| Attending surgeon | 267 (52) |
| Subspecialty* | |
| Arthroplasty | 54 (13) |
| Foot and ankle | 29 (7.2) |
| Hand | 60 (15) |
| Pediatrics | 44 (11) |
| Shoulder and elbow | 27 (6.7) |
| Sports medicine | 59 (15) |
| Spine | 33 (8.2) |
| Trauma | 60 (15) |
| Tumor | 25 (6.2) |
| General practice | 13 (3.2) |
| Practice setting† | |
| Academic | 235 (83) |
| Private | 46 (16) |
| Military | 3 (1.1) |
| Hand used for writing | |
| Primarily left | 78 (15) |
| Primarily right | 427 (84) |
| Ambidextrous | 5 (1.0) |
*
Only fellows (n = 48) and attending surgeons (n = 267) answered this question.
†
Only attending surgeons (n = 267) answered this question.