Table 1.

Characteristics of respondents by primary care provider type. DocStyles survey - 2016.

	Overall	Family Practitioner	Internal Medicine Provider	Nurse Practitioner
	n=1228	n=478	n=522	n=228
Provider Characteristics		%	%	%
Age
<45	45.4	42.9	48.1	44.7
≥45	54.6	57.1	51.9	55.3
Gender *
Female	38.8	34.3	21.7	87.3
Male	61.2	65.7	78.3	12.7
Race/Ethnicity *
Non-Hispanic White	63.0	64.5	54.0	80.3
Non-Hispanic Black	3.3	2.7	1.9	7.5
Hispanic	4.2	4.6	3.8	4.0
Asian	22.6	21.3	31.0	5.7
Other	7.1	6.9	9.2	2.6
Years in Practice *
<10	25.5	19.5	57.8	32.9
10-19	40.7	42.5	39.3	40.4
≥20	33.8	38.1	33.0	26.8
Practice Characteristics
Average number of patients/week *
<100	43.6	32.2	40.8	73.7
≥100	56.4	67.8	59.2	26.3
Practice setting *
Individual outpatient	20.2	22.0	18.4	20.6
Group outpatient	63.9	47.1	56.7	59.2
Inpatient practice	15.9	4.0	24.9	20.2
Patients seen age ≥65/week *
≤25%	24.3	34.9	12.8	28.1
25-50%	42.2	47.5	45.0	24.6
51-75%	26.3	15.1	35.4	29.0
>75%	7.3	2.5	6.7	18.4
Patient SES † *
Poor/Lower	31.5	32.2	26.6	41.2
Middle	24.5	34.9	37.9	25.4
Upper/Affluent	34.0	32.9	35.4	33.3
Region *
West	26.6	20.7	32.6	25.0
Midwest	20.0	24.1	17.8	16.7
Northeast	33.4	33.5	28.7	43.9
South	20.0	21.8	20.9	14.5

Chi-square tests were used to determine differences across provider type.

^†Poor/Lower ≤$49,999; Middle $50,000 - $99,999; Upper ≥ $100,000

^*Unadjusted chi-square test for categorical variables was significant at a p-value ≤ 0.05.