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Table 2 Participant socio-demographic characteristics

From: Genders of patients and clinicians and their effect on shared decision making: a participant-level meta-analysis

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Female clinician: Male patient (Nā€‰=ā€‰109)

Male clinician: Female patient (Nā€‰=ā€‰284)

Same gender (Nā€‰=ā€‰382)

p value

Study

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<.0001

ā€ƒā€‰AMI Choice

40 (36.7%)

18 (6.3%)

48 (12.6%)

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ā€ƒā€‰Chest Pain Choice

22 (20.2%)

91 (32.0%)

91 (23.8%)

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ā€ƒā€‰DAD

11 (10.1%)

22 (7.7%)

70 (18.3%)

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ā€ƒā€‰Diabetes Choice

11 (10.1%)

29 (10.2%)

45 (11.8%)

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ā€ƒā€‰Osteoporosis Choice I

0 (0.0%)

49 (17.3%)

51 (13.4%)

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ā€ƒā€‰Osteoporosis Choice II

0 (0.0%)

47 (16.5%)

32 (8.4%)

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ā€ƒā€‰Statin Choice

25 (22.9%)

28 (9.9%)

45 (11.8%)

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Arm

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<.0001

ā€ƒā€‰Control

32 (29.4%)

156 (54.9%)

196 (51.3%)

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ā€ƒā€‰DA

77 (70.6%)

128 (45.1%)

186 (48.7%)

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Age: Mean (SD)

60.3 (12.0)

62.4 (11.6)

60.6 (11.3)

0.15

Patient education 1

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0.18

ā€ƒā€‰HS or Less

41 (37.6%)

85 (29.9%)

133 (34.8%)

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ā€ƒā€‰Some college/Voc.

30 (27.5%)

112 (39.4%)

141 (36.9%)

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ā€ƒā€‰4Ā year/Graduate Degree

38 (34.9%)

87 (30.6%)

108 (28.3%)

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Type of clinician 2

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<.0001

ā€ƒā€‰Staff physician

37 (33.9%)

203 (71.5%)

246 (64.4%)

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ā€ƒā€‰Resident/fellow physician

28 (25.7%)

74 (26.1%)

79 (20.7%)

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ā€ƒā€‰Mid-level provider or nurse

44 (40.4%)

7 (2.5%)

57 (14.9%)

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  1. Abbreviations: DAD Decision Aids for Diabetes, SD standard deviation, HS high school, VOC vocational.
  2. 1the values of 40 cases that were previously missing were imputed using single imputation.
  3. 2not unique clinicians, number based on patient encounters.