Table 2.
Physician Characteristics by Physician Propensity to Use Radioactive Iodine (RAI) for Low-Risk Thyroid Cancer (N = 345)
| N (%) | Would not use RAI N (%) |
Would use RAI N (%) |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | 0.109 | |||
| Male | 242 (70.4) | 178 (74.6) | 61 (25.4) | |
| Female | 100 (29.6) | 82 (82.7) | 17 (17.3) | |
| Race | 0.537 | |||
| White | 216 (65.6) | 165 (78.0) | 47 (22.0) | |
| Non-White/Multiracial | 116 (34.4) | 87 (74.9) | 29 (25.1) | |
| Ethnicity | 0.774 | |||
| Hispanic | 11 (3.6) | 9 (80.0) | 2 (20.0) | |
| Non-Hispanic | 304 (96.4) | 229 (76.2) | 72(23.8) | |
| Years in practice | 0.458 | |||
| 1–9 years | 65 (19.3) | 54 (82.8) | 11 (17.2) | |
| 10–19 years | 116 (34.3) | 89 (78.2) | 25 (21.8) | |
| 20–29 years | 95 (28.0) | 70 (74.3) | 24 (25.7) | |
| 30 or more years | 64 (18.4) | 45 (71.9) | 18 (28.1) | |
| Practice setting | <0.001 | |||
| Private practice | 186 (54.3) | 128 (69.6) | 56 (30.4) | |
| Other | 159 (45.7) | 135 (86.4) | 22 (13.6) | |
| Number of patients with thyroid cancer | <0.001 | |||
| 0–20 | 173 (50.3) | 115 (67.6) | 55 (32.4) | |
| 21–40 | 76 (22.2) | 61 (79.9) | 15 (20.1) | |
| More than 40 | 92 (27.5) | 84 (91.6) | 8 (8.4) | |
| Specialty | 0.004 | |||
| General Surgery/Otolaryngology | 199 (56.1) | 139 (71.1) | 56 (28.9) | |
| Endocrinology | 146 (43.9) | 124 (84.9) | 22 (15.1) | |
| Site | 0.204 | |||
| Georgia | 162 (50.1) | 119 (74.3) | 42 (25.7) | |
| Los Angeles County | 183 (49.9) | 144 (80.2) | 36 (19.8) |