Table 1 |
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Primary Care Provider Characteristics and Preferences (n = 21) |
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Clinician Characteristic |
Value |
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Physicians, n (%) |
14 (67%) |
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Nurse Practitioners or Physician Assistants, n (%) |
7 (33%) |
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Female, n (%) |
14 (67%) |
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Mean years since training, yr (sd) |
18 (9.5) |
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Panel size |
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Mean number of patients in panel, n (%) |
700 (385) |
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Median panel size |
811 |
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Practicing in rural clinic, n (%) |
4 (19%) |
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Preferences |
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Mode of Communication1, n (%) |
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20 (95%) |
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Telephone or pager |
14 (67%) |
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In-person discussion |
6 (29%) |
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Prefers in-depth discussions of patient when time permits, n (%) |
11 (52%) |
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Prefers intervention team assess patient without contacting PCP first, n (%) |
16 (76%) |
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Prefers to co-sign all intervention team notes in the electronic record, n (%) |
11 (52%) |
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Prefers clinic nurse automatically included in intervention communications, n (%) |
10 (48%) |
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Prefers intervention team write orders without discussing changes first, n (%) |
15 (71%) |
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Prefers intervention team write new initial medication orders2, n (%) |
15 (83%) |
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1PCPs were asked to identify all preferred modes of communication. 2Three PCPs did not respond or had ambiguous responses to this item |
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Dobscha et al. Implementation Science 2007 2:16 doi:10.1186/1748-5908-2-16 |
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