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Table 1 Primary care physician and scenario characteristics

From: Effect of primary care physicians' use of estimated glomerular filtration rate on the timing of their subspecialty referral decisions

Physician characteristics

All N (%) N = 154

Physician Specialty

 

   Internal medicine

84 (55)

   Family physician

70 (45)

Years in practice:

 

   ≤ 10 years

76 (49)

   >10 years

78 (51)

Practice type:

 

   Academic

25 (16)

   Other

128 (84)

Percent clinical time:

 

   <80%,

23 (15)

   ≥ 80%

131 (85)

Census region:

 

   Northeast

40 (26)

   Midwest

33 (21)

   South

45 (29)

   West

36 (23)

Aware of referral guidelines

 

   Yes

49 (32)

   No

103 (68)

Educational resources:

 

   Conferences

134 (88)

   Scientific journals

144 (95)

   Other

78 (53)

Guideline organizations:

 

   Nephrology

46 (29)

   Internal medicine

118 (77)

   USPSTF

77 (50)

   Specialty

101 (66)

Clinical scenario:

 

   Patient race: African American

84 (55)

   Diabetes

89 (58)

  1. Note. Due to missing values, categorical frequencies may not equal column total. For educational resources and guideline organizations, selections were not mutually exclusive.
  2. ZIP code used for census region.