Table 2.

Demographic and Occupational Characteristics of the Hematologists Surveyed in China

	Overall sample (n = 529)		IC group (n = 265)		Non-IC group (n = 264)		P value
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Demographic characteristics
Gender							0.31
Men	175	33	82	31	93	35
Women	354	67	183	69	171	65
Age (n = 522)	41.0 ± 7.4		41.5 ± 7.8		40.8 ± 7.1		0.35
Occupational characteristics
Workplace
Academic hospital	390	74	201	76	189	72	0.28
Non-academic hospital	139	26	64	24	75	28
Level of hospital							0.85
Tertiary	504	95	252	95	252	95
Secondary	21	4	11	4	10	4
Primary	4	1	2	1	2	1
Number of beds							0.60
0–29	78	15	36	14	42	16
30–59	228	43	115	43	113	43
60–89	86	16	46	17	40	15
90–119	42	8	19	7	23	9
≥ 120	95	18	49	19	46	17
Education (n = 523)							0.17
Bachelor of medicine	128	24	58	22	70	27
Master of medicine	238	45	120	46	118	45
Doctor of medicine	157	30	83	32	74	28
Professional titles							0.022*
Attending physician	211	40	95	36	116	44
Associate chief physician	185	35	93	35	92	35
Chief physician	133	25	77	29	56	21
Subspecialty-AML	225	43	117	44	108	41	0.48
Years of working as a hematologista	11.1 ± 7.8		11.9 ± 7.9		10.4 ± 7.7		0.028*
Number of patients with AML treated in the past year							0.65
0–9	69	13	37	14	32	12
10–19	171	32	77	29	94	36
20–29	102	19	54	20	48	18
30–39	62	12	36	14	26	10
40–49	24	5	10	4	14	5
> 50	101	19	51	19	50	19
Number of elderly patients with AML treated in the past year							0.31
0–9	284	54	135	51	149	56
10–19	149	28	80	30	69	26
20–29	50	10	28	11	22	8
30–39	19	4	8	3	11	4
40–49	10	2	5	2	5	2
> 50	17	3	9	3	8	3
Self-evaluated experience with AML patients	7.6 ± 1.5		7.6 ± 1.6		7.5 ± 1.5		0.43

IC, intensive therapy; AML, acute myeloid leukemia

^aYears of working as a hematologist were counted after finishing residency

Bold emphasis and asterisk (*) indicate statistical significance (P < 0.05)