Table 3

Variation in Comprehensiveness and BETOS Scores Across Selected Characteristics of Family Physicians

	Comprehensiveness Scores	Recertifying Family Physicians	BETOS Scores	Full Sample of Family Physicians
Medical School Location
United States	3.51	1042	13.86^a	3,257
International	3.12	91	12.27	395
Sex
Male	3.46	771	14.04^a	2,549
Female	3.49	362	12.60	1,103
Medical school type
Allopathic	3.42	1048	13.73^a	3,052
Osteopathic	4.22	85	13.20	600
Year of medical school graduation
<1980	2.81^b	211	13.53	731
1980–1989	3.57	340	13.69	1,111
1990–1999	3.66	571	13.68	1,302
≥2000	3.86	11	13.57	508
Practice location
Urban	3.27^b	760	13.44^a	2,421
Large rural	3.71	214	13.92	673
Small rural	4.65	91	14.71	290
Isolated rural	4.77	45	14.41	158
Frontier	5.60	22	16.29	89
Family physicians per 100,000 population
0–20	2.44^b	48	12.64^a	151
21–40	3.37	717	13.59	2,325
41+	4.25	368	14.15	1,176

Medicare Claims Data, 2011.
BETOS = Berenson-Eggers Type of Service codes.
Note: The mean comprehensiveness scores are based on the subsample of recertifying family physicians (n=1,133). Comprehensiveness scores for individual physicians range from 0 to 12. The mean BETOS scores are based on the full sample of family physicians (n=3,652). BETOS scores range from 1 to 32.
↵a P <.0 5.
↵b P <. 01.