Clinical Variation in the Treatment Practices for Medication Nonadherence, Drug–Drug Interactions, and Recognition of Disease Progression in Patients with Chronic Cardiometabolic Diseases: A Cross-Sectional Patient Simulation Study among Primary Care Physicians

Table 1

Physician baseline characteristics.

	Overall
N	246
Male	73.6%
Age	56.4 ± 8.3
Internal medicine	54.1%
Number of years in clinical practice
2–10	3.2%
11–20	28.9%
21–35	67.9%
Number of active patients in the panel
500–1000	14.6%
1001–2000	38.6%
>2000	46.8%
Practice type
Hospital-based	10.6%
Private, multispecialty	27.6%
Private, single specialty	36.2%
Private, solo	25.6%
Region
Northeast	28.2%
South	32.0%
Midwest	22.0%
West	17.8%
Setting
Urban	30.3%
Suburban	56.9%
Rural	12.9%
Employed by practice	77.2%
Payer, %
Medicare	35.8%
Medicaid	9.4%
Commercial	47.2%
Self	5.3%
Other	2.3%
Participant in CMS quality program
Yes	50.6%
No	35.7%
Do not know	14.1%
Receive quality bonus	57.3%