Table 3 Baseline Physician and Practice Characteristics
Overall | Intervention | Control | Int vs, Control p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
n = 129 | n = 67 | n = 62 | ||
Age (Average / SD) | 50.1 (8.9) | 49.0 (8.9) | 51.2 (8.9) | 0.133 |
Number of years post-fellowship | ||||
0–5 | 7.2% | 10.2% | 3.8% | 0.410 |
6–10 | 17.3% | 18.1% | 16.3% | |
11–20 | 45.1% | 47.5% | 42.3% | |
21+ years | 30.5% | 24.1% | 37.7% | |
Number of MD’s associated with practice | ||||
1–3 | 33.9% | 34.8% | 32.8% | 0.816 |
4–10 | 35.5% | 33.9% | 37.4% | |
10+ | 30.6% | 31.3% | 29.8% | |
Single Specialty Practice (%) | 86.3% | 85.7% | 87.0% | |
Practice type (% breakdown) | ||||
Group/Staff | 85.9% | 82.1% | 90.2% | 0.410 |
IPA | 4.6% | 4.8% | 4.3% | |
Mixed | 7.9% | 10.2% | 5.4% | |
Network | 1.5% | 2.9% | 0.0% | |
Practice Ownership (% breakdown) | ||||
Physician-Physician group | 89.3% | 93.1% | 85.1% | 0.246 |
Hospital | 6.3% | 4.1% | 8.9% | |
Community Health Center | 3.4% | 1.4% | 5.7% | |
Other | 0.9% | 1.4% | 0.3% | |
Employed by practice (% Yes) | 65.3% | 66.7% | 63.8% | 0.713 |
Average days worked per week (%) | ||||
4 | 11.0% | 14.3% | 7.2% | 0.568 |
5+ | 89.0% | 85.7% | 92.8% | |
On-site robotic surgery capability (%) | 55.5% | 51.9% | 59.4% | 0.364 |
Number of urology patients seen in 1 week | ||||
< 50 | 1.6% | 1.4% | 1.9% | 0.861 |
51–100 | 49.6% | 48.9% | 50.4% | |
> 100 | 48.7% | 49.6% | 47.7% | |
Number of prostate cancer patients seen in 1 week | ||||
0–20 | 58.3% | 47.3% | 70.8% | 0.005 |
> 20 | 41.7% | 52.7% | 29.2% | |
Proportion of all patients covered by (sd) | ||||
Medicare | 47.6 (11.6) | 48.4 (11.8) | 46.7 (11.5) | 0.379 |
Commercial | 41.3(13.3) | 40.3 (13.0) | 42.5 (13.6) | 0.316 |
Medicaid | 6.1(6.4) | 6.1 (5.9) | 6.2 (6.9) | 0.966 |
Self-pay | 3.7 (4.0) | 3.7 (3.8) | 3.7 (4.3) | 0.989 |