|
Variable
| |
All
|
Family medicine
|
Internal medicine specialist
|
Infectious disease specialist
|
p-value
|
|---|
| | |
N = 3,824
|
N = 3,699
|
N = 70
|
N = 55
| |
|---|
|
Age (years)
|
Mean ± SD
|
49.7 ± 11.2
|
49.8 ± 11.1
|
47.0 ± 14.1
|
47.4 ± 9.2
|
0.033
|
|
Age category (years)
|
<40
|
1,711 (44.7%)
|
732 (19.8%)
|
29 (41.4%)
|
12 (21.8%)
|
<0.001
|
| |
40-54
|
986 (25.8%)
|
1,660 (44.9%)
|
19 (27.1%)
|
32 (58.2%)
| |
| |
55-64
|
773 (20.2%)
|
966 (26.1%)
|
12 (17.1%)
|
11 (20%)*
| |
| |
>64
|
347 (9.1%)
|
334 (9.0%)
|
10 (14.3%)
| | |
|
Sex
|
F
|
1,165 (30.5%)
|
1,138 (30.8%)
|
14 (20.0%)
|
13 (23.6%)
|
0.276
|
|
Year of graduation
|
Missing
|
320 (8.4%)
|
307 (8.3%)
|
7 (10.0%)
|
6 (10.9%)
|
<0.001
|
| |
>2000s
|
363 (9.5%)
|
471 (12.7%)
|
18 (25.7%)
|
23 (41.8%)*
| |
| |
1990s
|
829 (21.7%)
|
765 (20.7%)
|
18 (25.7%)
| |
| |
1980s
|
1,017 (26.6%)
|
992 (26.8%)
|
10 (14.3%)
|
15 (27.3%)
| |
| |
1970s
|
801 (20.9%)
|
815 (22.0%)
|
6 (8.6%)
|
11 (20.0%)*
| |
| |
Pre-1970
|
494 (12.9%)
|
349 (9.4%)
|
11 (15.7%)
| |
|
Rural status of physician
|
Missing
|
114 (3.0%)
|
112 (3.0%)
|
<=5
|
0
|
0.002
|
| |
Major urban
|
3,092 (80.9%)
|
2,972 (80.3%)
|
65 (92.9%)
|
55 (100.0%)
| |
| |
Non-major urban
|
451 (11.8%)
|
448 (12.1%)
|
<=5
|
0
| |
| |
Rural
|
167 (4.4%)
|
167 (4.5%)
|
<=5
|
0
| |
|
Caseload volume
|
<=5
|
2,870 (75.1%)
|
2,841 (76.8%)
|
25 (35.7%)
|
20 (36.4%)*
| |
| |
6-49
|
830 (21.7%)
|
779 (21.1%)
|
35 (50.0%)
|
<0.001
|
| |
> = 50
|
124 (3.2%)
|
79 (2.1%)
|
10 (14.3%)
|
35 (63.6%)
| |
- *Some categories are collapsed to avoid reporting cell sizes < =5.
