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Table 1 Physician characteristics

From: Clinical utility of a novel test for assessing cardiovascular disease risk in type 2 diabetes: a randomized controlled trial

 

Control

Intervention 1

Intervention 2

p-value

N

80

74

74

–

Male

77.5%

82.4%

74.3%

0.486

Cardiology

38.8%

24.3%

36.5%

0.129

Age (years)

58.4 ± 8.7

55.1 ± 8.8

56.9 ± 9.9

0.079

Practice type

 Academic

2.5%

1.4%

4.1%

0.984

 Hospital-based

13.8%

10.8%

13.5%

 Private, multi-specialty

26.3%

29.7%

28.4%

 Private, single specialty

37.5%

35.1%

39.2%

 Private, solo

15.0%

18.9%

12.2%

 FQHC

3.8%

2.7%

2.7%

 Other

1.3%

1.4%

0.0%

Region

 Northeast

22.5%

35.1%

40.5%

0.118

 South

23.8%

24.3%

24.3%

 Midwest

30.0%

20.3%

12.2%

 West

23.8%

20.3%

23.0%

Setting

 Urban

30.0%

36.5%

32.4%

0.803

 Suburban

56.3%

55.4%

55.4%

 Rural

13.8%

8.1%

12.2%

Employed by practice

86.3%

87.8%

83.8%

0.774

Payer, %

 Medicare

38.6%

33.9%

38.8%

0.120

 Medicaid

11.3%

10.1%

12.7%

0.496

 Commercial

45.6%

50.5%

43.5%

0.068

 Self

3.7%

4.1%

4.0%

0.835

 Other

0.8%

1.3%

1.0%

0.599

Use CV risk calculator

80.0%

83.8%

81.1%

0.825