Research Article
Reporting Vaccine Complications: What Do Obstetricians and Gynecologists Know About the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System?
Table 1
Demographic variables of responding physicians (
).
| | Demographic variables | (%) or
mean (SD) |
| | Age (year of birth) | 1958 (±9.7) | | Females | 1962 (±8.3) | | Males | 1954 (±9.4) | | Gender | | | Male | 153 (47%) | | Female | 171 (53%) | | Practice location | | | Urban-inner city | 148 (45%) | | Suburban | 126 (39%) | | Other | 48 (15%) | | Practice type | | | Solo private practice | 63 (19%) | | Group practice | 177 (54%) | | Community hospital facility | 35 (11%) | | University full-time faculty and practice | 31 (10%) | Other (i.e., public health, government, volunteer,
etc.) | 19 (6%) | | Primary medical specialty | | | General obstetrics and gynecology | 238 (73%) | | Gynecology only | 66 (20%) | | Obstetrics only | 6 (2%) | | Other (i.e., REI, urogynecology, etc.) | 15 (5%) | | Race/ethnicity | | | White, non-Hispanic | 268 (82%) | | White, Hispanic | 13 (4%) | | Asian/Pacific Islander | 28 (9%) | | African American | 10 (3%) | | Native American/multiracial | 6 (2%) | | Primary race/ethnicity of patients | | | White, non-Hispanic | 233 (72%) | | White, Hispanic | 27 (8%) | | African American | 21 (6%) | | Multiracial | 34 (10%) | | Asian/Pacific Islander/native American/unsure | 10 (4%) |
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