Table 1.

Demographic data

	na	Percentageb (%)		na	Percentageb (%)
Sex			Specialty
Male	446	94.5	Orthopaedics	332	68.5
Female	26	5.5	Neurosurgery	144	29.7
Age (years)			Trauma	50	10.3
25–34	56	11.7	Pediatric surgery	16	3.3
35–44	173	36.1	Other	14	2.9
45–54	160	33.4	Practice type
55–64	73	15.2	Academic/University Hospital	164	34.0
65+	17	3.5	"Privademic" (academic/Private combined)	128	26.6
Geographic region			Private group, < 10 practitioners	58	12.0
Africa	95	19.9	Private group, > 10 practitioners	20	4.1
Asia Pacific	94	19.7	Individual practice	35	7.3
Europe	116	24.3	Government/Military Hospital	34	7.1
North America	45	9.4	Hospital employee	29	6.0
South America	127	26.6	Other	14	2.9
Estimated population hospital serves			Hospital community
< 100,000	46	9.6	Urban	408	85.4
100,000–500,000	118	24.7	Suburban	63	13.2
500,000–1,000,000	100	21.0	Rural	7	1.5
1,000,000–2,000,000	67	14.0	Total respondents	485	100.0
> 2,000,000	146	30.6

^aNumber of respondents/votes

^bPercentages were calculated based on total responses per question, not total number of survey responses