Table 1

Characteristics of Early Career Family Physicians Prescribing of Buprenorphine by Involvement With Maternity Care (N = 5,103)

Deliveries (n = 829) No. (%)Maternity Care, No Deliveries (n = 619) No. (%)Neither Deliveries or Maternity Care (n = 3,655) No. (%)Total (N = 5,103) No. (%)
PrescriberNon-PrescriberPrescriberNon-PrescriberPrescriberNon-PrescriberPrescriberNon-Prescriber
Total153 (18.5)676 (81.5)108 (17.4)619 (82.6)256 (7.0)3,399 (93.0)517 (10.1)4,586 (89.9)
Average age (SD)35.2 (3.6)34.9 (3.4)36.1 (4.3)35.6 (4.0)36.4 (4.3)35.9 (4.5)36.0 (4.1)35.7 (4.3)
Female96 (62.7)454 (67.2)69 (63.9)323 (63.2)131 (51.2)1,944 (57.2)296 (58.3)2,721 (59.3)
MD degree137 (89.5)558 (82.5)102 (94.4)434 (84.9)217 (84.8)2,758 (81.1)456 (88.2)3,750 (81.8)
US medical graduate138 (90.2)603 (89.2)76 (70.4)317 (62.0)187 (73.0)2,232 (65.7)401 (77.6)3,152 (68.7)
Rural practice location31 (20.3)224 (33.1)8 (7.4)67 (13.1)30 (11.7)450 (13.2)69 (13.5)741 (16.7)
  • MD = Doctor of Medicine; US = United States.

  • Note: All comparisons within maternity care involvement category were significant at P <.05 with ANOVA or χ2 tests.