Table 1 Physician Demographic and Practice Variables
From: Community oncologists’ perceptions and utilization of large-panel genomic tumor testing
N (%) | |
|---|---|
Gender | |
Female | 26 (48%) |
Male | 28 (52%) |
Missing | 4 |
Rurality | |
Rural | 18 (34%) |
Small town | 15 (28%) |
Suburban | 12 (23%) |
Urban | 8 (15%) |
Missing | 5 |
Specialty | |
Hematology/Oncology | 48 (84%) |
Surgical Oncology | 4 (7.0%) |
Gynecologic Oncology | 2 (3.5%) |
No Specialty Identified | 3 (5.3%) |
Missing | 1 |
Practice Size (Number of oncology physicians) | |
1–4 | 23 (45%) |
5–9 | 12 (24%) |
10+ | 16 (31%) |
Missing | 7 |
Years since medical school | |
1–9 | 8 (15%) |
10–19 | 24 (44%) |
20–29 | 13 (24%) |
30+ | 9 (17%) |
Missing | 4 |
Mean (SD) | |
Average number of newly diagnosed patients each montha | 21 (10) |
Percentage of time spent on direct patient careb | 88% (13) |
Patient Insurance Status (percent of caseload): | |
Uninsuredc | 12% (9) |
Medicaidd | 22% (13) |
Commercially Insurede | 27% (10) |
Medicaref | 44% (13) |