Table 8.
Practitioner characteristics | ALL | POSI = 0 |
P | |
---|---|---|---|---|
N=232 | N=194 | Row % | ||
Country trained in | 0.6 | |||
United States | 189 | 157 | 83% | |
Other | 43 | 37 | 86% | |
Gender | 0.5 | |||
Male | 172 | 145 | 84% | |
Female | 60 | 49 | 82% | |
Race and ethniciity | 0.6 | |||
White/Caucasian | 141 | 120 | 85% | |
Asian | 64 | 53 | 83% | |
Hispanic | 22 | 19 | 86% | |
Other/unknown | 5 | 2 | 40% | |
Age, years | 0.6 | |||
< 45 | 92 | 74 | 80% | |
45 – 54 | 55 | 49 | 89% | |
55 – 64 | 71 | 60 | 84% | |
≥ 65 | 14 | 11 | 79% | |
Years since dental degree, years | 0.5 | |||
< 10 | 20 | 18 | 90% | |
10 – 19 | 91 | 73 | 80% | |
20 – 29 | 61 | 54 | 88% | |
≥ 30 | 59 | 49 | 83% | |
Type of practice | 0.05 | |||
Solo, private practice | 104 | 86 | 83% | |
Owner, non-solo private practice | 48 | 39 | 81% | |
Associate/employee private practice | 23 | 17 | 74% | |
Preferred provider practice | 13 | 9 | 69% | |
Academic | 43 | 42 | 98% | |
Geographic Region of Practice | NE | |||
West | 116 | 94 | 81% | |
Midwest | 24 | 22 | 92% | |
Southwest | 26 | 22 | 85% | |
South Central | 5 | 5 | 100% | |
South Atlantic | 29 | 27 | 93% | |
Northeast | 32 | 24 | 75% |
Percents are “row” %s, namely, the proportion of the “outcome” treatment (column heading) for that treatment comparison.
P-values are adjusted for clustering of patients within practitioners using generalized estimating equations
NE: Not estimable