Variations in corticosteroid/anesthetic injections for painful shoulder conditions: comparisons among orthopaedic surgeons, rheumatologists, and physical medicine and primary-care physicians

Table 5 Physician characteristics: gender and years-in-practice. Physician Characteristics (excluding late responders)

	Female (%)	Male (%)	Years in practice	% of total responding physicians per time interval	% of responding physicians who answered this question
Orthopaedists	0%	100%	0–5	7.7% (n = 7)
			6–10	16.5% (n = 15)
			11–15	20.9% (n = 19)	86.7%
			16–20	14.3% (n = 13)
			>20	40.2% (n = 37)
PCSMs/PMRs	24.4%	75.6%	0–5	16.2% (n = 6)
			6–10	32.5% (n = 12)
			11–15	21.6% (n = 8)	84.1%
			16–20	13.5% (n = 5)
			>20	16.2% (n = 6)
Rheumatologists	7.7%	92.3%	0–5	20% (n = 4)
			6–10	20% (n = 4)
			11–15	20% (n = 4)	100.0%
			16–20	15% (n = 3)
			>20	25% (n = 5)

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