Table 1 Participant demographics and experience
From: How do physicians decide to treat: an empirical evaluation of the threshold model
Variable | Number of participants (%) |
|---|---|
Overall | 41 (100) |
Gender | |
Male | 28 (68) |
Female | 13 (32) |
Age | |
Median (Range) | 41 (26 to 66) |
Area of specialization | |
Anesthesiology | 2 (5) |
Dermatology | 1 (2) |
Emergency Medicine | 1 (2) |
Family Medicine | 10 (24) |
Hematology and Oncology | 14 (34) |
Internal Medicine | 5 (12) |
Obstetrics and Gynecology | 2 (5) |
Otolaryngology | 1 (2) |
Pediatrics | 1 (2) |
Urology | 2 (5) |
Other* | 2 (5) |
Level of experience | |
Resident | 10 (24) |
Fellow | 8 (20) |
Attending | 23 (56) |
Experience treating patients for PE (N = 41) | |
None | 3 (7) |
Fewer than 5 patients | 11 (27) |
Between 5 and 10 patients | 4 (10) |
Between 11 and 20 patients | 7 (17) |
More than 20 patients | 16 (39) |
PE vignettes similar to experience (N = 38) | |
Yes | 30 (79) |
No | 8 (21) |
Experience treating patients for AML (N = 41) | |
None | 25 (61) |
Fewer than 5 patients | 4 (10) |
Between 5 and 10 patients | 1 (2) |
Between 11 and 20 patients | 4 (10) |
More than 20 patients | 7 (17) |
AML vignettes similar to experience (N = 16) | |
Yes | 14 (88) |
No | 2 (12) |
Understand formal principles of decision analysis (N = 41) | |
Yes | 29 (71) |
No | 12 (29) |