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Show Table 1: Demographics Rural (n=29) Urban (n=33) P-Value Age (Mean +/- SD) 43 +/- 6.1 47+/-10.9 0.169 Gender (% Male) 90% 97% 0.332 Specialty (%) General Internal Medicine Family Practice/General Practice Emergency Medicine 10% 83% 7% 36% 46% 18% 0.008 Experience in Rural or Frontier Medicine (years, mean +/-SD) 8.2 +/- 6.5 0.8 +/-2.2 <0.001 Experience in Urban Medicine (years, mean +/-SD) 5.1 +/- 7.5 16.5 +/-10.9 <0.001 Medical School Faculty?(% yes) 35% 16% 0.101 Admissions in Last Year2(%) 0-100 101+ 56% 38% 64% 30% 0.744 Practice Type (%) Solo Small Group Large Group Staff model/HMO/University-based Public clinic/Other 38% 45% 3% 0% 14% 26% 45% 23% 6% 0.090 Most Frequent Reimbursement % Salary %Salary + performance incentive % Fee-for-Service % Per-member-per-month % Other 14% 31% 48% 0% 7% 6% 29% 61% 3% 0% 0.359 Hospital Type3 (%) Public/University Private Other 41% 52% 7% 20% 80% 0% Hospital Full? (% yes) 12% 9% 1.000 Patient Insurance Types (mean +/-SD) % Uninsured, cannot pay % Medicaid only % Medicare only % Private insurance 11 +/-13.3% 19+/-9.0% 21 +/-10.5% 41 +/-19.6% 8 +/- 11.5% 9 +/- 5.4% 26 +/- 21.4% 56+/-18.2% 0.409 <0.001 <0.001 0.003 Patient Ethnicities (mean+ASD) % African-American %Asian-American % Euro-American, non-Hispanic % Hispanic/Latino % Native American %Pacific Islander-American %Mixed % Other 1 +/-1.1% 2 +/-1.8% 79+/-18.6% 10+/-6.8% 13+/-26.7% 1 +/-0.6% 10+/-29.8% 0.2 +/- 0.45% 3 +/-1.9% 4 +/- 2.6% 77 +/-11.3% 12+/-11.3% 2 +/-2.6% 2 +/- 3.0% 3 +/- 3.5% 1 +/- 0.0% <0.001 <0.001 0.731 0.432 0.066 0.003 0.460 0.062 Table 2: Physician Ratings of Likelihood of Admission when no Non-medical Factors Apply 2 Excludes normal deliveries. 3 Refers to hospital where most admissions occur. 26 |