Table 1

Characteristics of Primary Care Physicians and Their Practice Settings (N = 962)

CharacteristicUnweighted nWeighted %
Physician characteristics
Years since graduation from medical school
 <1013614.0
 10–1930932.7
 20–2928830.5
 ≥3022922.8
Sex
 Male68070.4
 Female28229.6
Race/ethnicity
 White, non-Hispanic69871.9
 Asian14915.3
 Othera11512.8
Specialty
 Family medicine48150.7
 General practice664.4
 General internal medicine41545.0
Board certified74579.5
International medical graduate23624.4
Practice characteristics
Primary practice arrangement
 Full/part owner of practice52153.8
 Employee or other/missing44146.2
Practice size (number of physicians)
 125626.4
 2–540041.7
 6–1519820.7
 ≥1610210.6
 Missing60.7
Geographic location
 Urbanb76280.2
 Large rural city/townc10810.7
 Small/isolated small rural townd929.1
Census region
 Northeast18419.9
 Midwest25323.9
 West20522.9
 South32033.3
Type of health record system used
 Full EHR17718.7
 Partial EHR899.5
 Transitioning from paper to EHR14415.2
 Paper charts54555.9
 Missing70.8
Patients uninsured, %
 0–556459.5
 6–2529129.6
 ≥26686.8
 Don’t know/missing394.0
Physician practice style
Has an affiliation with a medical school31633.8
Patient volume during a typical week
 ≤7531632.7
 76–10030331.7
 101–12520221.3
 ≥12612612.8
 Missing151.5
Colorectal cancer screening intensity
 Low/moderate60562.8
 High32233.9
 Unknown353.4
Types of patients for whom the physician would recommend lung cancer screening
 All, regardless of smoking exposure16717.2
 Any smoking exposure, passive or active29330.4
 Current and/or former smokers only18419.0
 None30832.3
 Missing101.0

  • EHR=electronic health record.

  • ↵a Includes Hispanic; black, non-Hispanic; American Indian/Alaska Native; Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander; multiple races; other race; and unknown.

  • ↵b Rural-Urban Commuting Area 2 (RUCA2) codes 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 2.1, 3.0, 4.1, 7.1.

  • ↵c RUCA2 codes 4.0, 4.2, 5.0, 5.2, 6.0.

  • ↵d RUCA2 codes 7.0, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.2, 8.3, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.2, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6.