Research Article
Infectious Diseases Physicians’ Attitudes and Practices Related to Complementary and Integrative Medicine: Results of a National Survey
Table 2
Demographics and practice characteristics.
| | Respondent characteristica | Number (%) |
| | Age (y) mean (range) | 49 (30–80) | | Gender male | 199 (64) | | Race () | | | White | 218 | | Black | 14 | | Asian | 58 | | Hispanic/Latino | 16 | | Other | 12 | | Region | | | Northeast | 105 (34) | | South | 99 (32) | | Midwest | 55 (18) | | West | 52 (17) | | Type of degree () | | | MD | 288 | | Other (MBBS, DO, Other) | 25 | | ID Board certification | 249 (80) | | Place of birth () | | | USA | 206 (79) | | Other | 55 (21) |
| | Practice characteristic () | Number (%) |
| | Practice setting () | | | Solo, private | 30 (10) | | Group, private | 66 (22) | | Institutional | 80 (27) | | Academic | 119 (40) | | Affiliation with a IM/CAM center ( ) | 46 (15) | | Years in Practice () median range | 11–20 | | Majority of time spent in () | | | Research | 62 (21) | | Patient care | 196 (68) | | Teaching | 9 (3) | | Majority of clinical care in | | | HIV () | 91 (30) | | Hepatitis B, C () | 24 (8) | | Chronic/recurrent infections () | 81 (27) | | Hospital acquired infections () | 147 (48) | | Outpatient care () | 104 (34) | | ID () | 226 (73) | | General internal medicine/hospital medicine () | 36 (12) |
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Number of respondents is indicated in parenthesis if n < or > 311.
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