Physician attitude toward depression care interventions: Implications for implementation of quality improvement initiatives

Table 1 Physician and practice characteristics

Characteristic	Distribution
Physicians
Age*	44 y (range 33–55)
Years in practice**	17.3 y
Sex	58% male, 42% female
Specialty	71% internal medicine, 29% family/general practice
Physicians" practice environment*
Practice specialty	6% solo practice, 71% single specialty group, 24% multi specialty group
On-site mental health availability	59% on-site mental health, 6% access at another site within medical group, 35% no on-site mental health
Medical record type	18% paper record only, 35% paper record supplemented with electronic data, 35% electronic medical record handles all functions, 12% electronic medical record with separate ordering or data system

*Age and physicians" practice environment describes all physician participants except DPRP physicians. The data were not collected for DPRP participants because they were not required to abstract data for the first part of the study.
** Years in practice describes physician participants from the DPRP sample.

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