Table 1 Provider Respondent Characteristics and Patient Population
From: Competing demands in postpartum care: a national survey of U.S. providers’ priorities and practice
Characteristics | Frequency (%) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
All respondents (n = 236) | Nurse-Midwives (n = 106) | Family Medicine (n = 63) | OB-GYN (n = 62) | |
Mean years in practice | 25.0 ± 11.8 | 22.8 ± 12.7 | 28.8 ± 9.7 | 24.1 ± 11.2 |
Actively treating postpartum patients | 214 (90.7%) | 98 (92.5%) | 52 (82.5%) | 60 (96.8%) |
Gender | ||||
Female | 159 (67.4%) | 104 (98.1%) | 28 (44.4%) | 26 (41.9%) |
Male | 75 (31.8%) | 1(0.9%) | 34 (54.0%) | 36 (58.1%) |
Race | ||||
Asian | 12 (5.1%) | 1 (0.9%) | 4 (6.3%) | 6 (9.7%) |
Black/African American | 11 (4.7%) | 5 (4.7%) | 1 (1.6%) | 5 (8.1%) |
Hispanic/Latino(a) | 8 (3.4%) | 2 (1.9%) | 2 (3.2%) | 4 (6.5%) |
Native American | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) |
Mixed race, Other | 5 (2.1%) | 0 (0%) | 3 (4.8%) | 2 (3.2%) |
White/Caucasian | 197 (83.5%) | 97 (91.5%) | 51 (81.0%) | 45 (72.6%) |
Did not respond | 3 (1.3%) | 1 (0.9%) | 2 (3.2%) | 0 (0%) |
Region of Practice | ||||
Northeast | 39 (16.5%) | 26 (24.5%) | 3 (4.8%) | 10 (16.1%) |
Midwest | 72 (30.5%) | 23 (21.7%) | 29 (46.0%) | 17 (27.4%) |
South | 68 (28.8%) | 33 (31.1%) | 13 (20.6%) | 21 (33.9%) |
West | 53 (22.5%) | 21 (19.8%) | 17 (27.0%) | 14 (22.6%) |
Proportion of patients on Medicaid | 42.9 ± 29.4 | 50.9 ± 30.1 | 37.7 ± 28.0 | 35.7 ± 27.5 |
Postpartum care attendance | ||||
Schedule care | 90.4 ± 14.1 | 90.1 ± 13.2 | 87.7 ± 20.4 | 93.0 ± 8.6 |
Attend care | 79.4 ± 18.8 | 79.1 ± 18.4 | 75.6 ± 23.7 | 82.2 ± 14.9 |