Table 1.
Description of Survey Respondents
| Physician Group |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Physicians (N = 106) | Internists (n = 44) | Geriatricians (n = 62) | P value | |
| Physician characteristics | ||||
| Age, M ± SD | 57.7 ± 10.6 | 59.1 ± 10.3 | 56.3 ± 10.8 | .19 |
| Male, % | 57.5 | 63.6 | 54. | .32 |
| Race, % | .51 | |||
| White (non-Hispanic) | 75.0 | 75.0 | 75.0 | |
| African American | 3.8 | 2.3 | 5.0 | |
| Asian | 19.2 | 18.2 | 20.0 | |
| Other (including multi-racial) | 2.0 | 4.6 | 0.0 | |
| Hispanic/Latino ethnicity, % | 6.9 | 4.7 | 8.5 | .70 |
| Years practicing (not including training), M ± SD | 25.5 ± 11.7 | 27.3 ± 12.3 | 24.2 ± 11.2 | .18 |
| Hours per week spent seeing outpatients, M ± SD | 28.7 ± 13.3 | 30.9 ± 13.9 | 27.1 ± 12.7 | .16 |
| Self-reported proportion of older adults (≥65 years) in patient panel, M ± SD | 72.4 ± 24.3 | 47.0 ± 14.7 | 89.6 ± 10.1 | .00 |
| Self-reported proportion of older patients with dementia who attend visits with a caregiver, M ± SD | 63.6 ± 32.7 | 62.1 ± 34.6 | 65.5 ± 31.5 | .54 |
| Self-reported proportion of older patients without dementia who attend visits with a caregiver, M ± SD | 24.9 ± 21.3 | 20.5 ± 21.1 | 27.9 ± 21.1 | .63 |
| Self-reported proportion of patient panel receiving Medicaid or Medicare, M ± SD | 67.3 ± 26.1 | 48.7 ± 19.1 | 79.6 ± 22.7 | .00 |
| Practice characteristics | ||||
| Practice type, % | .34 | |||
| Private practice | 53.8 | 63.6 | 46.8 | |
| Academic-affiliate | 17.0 | 11.4 | 21.0 | |
| Community health center | 7.5 | 9.1 | 6.5 | |
| Other (hospital-based, multi-specialty, goverment health center) | 0.9 | 0.0 | 1.6 | |
| Practice location, % | .91 | |||
| Suburban | 44.3 | 45.5 | 43.5 | |
| Urban | 38.7 | 36.4 | 40.3 | |
| Rural | 17.0 | 18.2 | 16.1 | |
| Region (US Census Bureau defined), % | .12 | |||
| Northeast | 32.7 | 37.2 | 29.3 | |
| Midwest | 24.8 | 18.6 | 29.3 | |
| South | 20.8 | 14.0 | 25.9 | |
| West | 21.8 | 30.2 | 15.5 | |