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Table 1 Participant demographics

From: Effect of clinical decision rules, patient cost and malpractice information on clinician brain CT image ordering: a randomized controlled trial

 

LEGAL-COST group (n = 82)

COST-LEGAL group (n = 85)

P-value*

Both groups (n = 167)

Clinician type

  

0.92

 

 Physician

73 (89.0%)

77 (90.6%)

 

150 (89.8%)

 Nurse Pract.

6 (7.3%)

6 (7.1%)

 

12 (7.2%)

 Physician Assist.

3 (3.7%)

2 (2.4%)

 

5 (3.0%)

Role

  

0.74

 

 Practicing clinician

73 (89.0%)

77 (90.6%)

 

150 (89.8%)

 Trainee

9 (11.0%)

8 (9.4%)

 

17 (10.2%)

Years of Practice

  

0.31

 

 Less than 5 years

32 (39.0%)

24 (28.2%)

 

56 (33.5%)

 5–10 years

17 (20.7%)

23 (27.1%)

 

40 (24.0%)

 More than 10 years

33 (40.3%)

38 (44.7%)

 

71 (42.5%)

Gender

  

0.23

 

 Male

49 (59.8%)

43 (50.6%)

 

92 (55.1%)

 Female

33 (40.2%)

42 (49.4%)

 

75 (44.9%)

Age (year)

  

0.40

 

  < 30

6 (7.3%)

10 (11.8%)

 

16 (9.6%)

 31–40

40 (48.8%)

34 (40.0%)

 

74 (44.3%)

 41–50

14 (17.1%)

21 (24.7%)

 

35 (20.9%)

 51+

22 (26.8%)

20 (23.5%)

 

42 (25.2%)

  1. *P-value was calculated using Chi-square test except for the comparison of clinician type, P-value was calculated using Fisher exact test (more than 20% of cells with sample size less than 5)
  2. Notes: LEGAL-COST indicates exposure to legal then cost information; COST-LEGAL indicates exposure to cost then legal information