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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Serv Res. 2009 Sep 23;44(6):1933–1949. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2009.01022.x

Table 3.

Percent of physicians consistent in their gender assessments of CHD population prevalence and their diagnostic certainty for the individual patient, by physician characteristics*

Physician Characteristics n % Consistent P-value
Gender
 Male 128 53.1 0.62
 Female 128 50.0
Clinical experience
 More 128 48.4 0.32
 Less 128 54.7
Primed to consider CHD as a diagnosis
 Yes 128 49.2 0.45
 No 128 53.9
Reported following medical literature closely
 Yes 61 57.4 0.30
 No 195 49.7
Believes published prevalences are accurate
 Yes 117 53.0 0.68
 No 139 47.0
Believes his/her patient population is similar to the general US adult population
 Yes 93 52.7 0.79
 No 163 47.3
Assessment of CHD prevalence in general US adult population
 No gender difference 115 62.6 0.001
 Higher in men 123 45.5
 Higher in women 18 22.2
*

Unadjusted chi-square p-values; adjustment for other physician or patient factors did not appreciably affect results