Sentences with phrase «percent of physicians»

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 88 percent of lawyers are white as compared to 81 percent of architects and engineers, 78 percent of accountants, and 72 percent of physicians and surgeons.

«In Ontario in 2006, members of a visible minority accounted for 30.7 percent of all physicians, 31.7 percent of engineers, 17.6 percent of academics and 11.8 percent of high - level managers, compared to 11.5 percent of lawyers.

Mean premiums increased only in three specialties comprising 4 percent of physicians: obstetrics, neurology and orthopedists performing spinal surgery.

Even if more than 3,000 doctors and engineers signed the petition that would mean that 99.7 percent of all physicians practicing in the US didn't sign the petition, and 99.2 percent of US engineers didn't sign.

These visits can comprise as much as 70 percent of physicians» caseloads.

Seventy - five percent of physicians said they saw one or more of their patients overall health improve, and 87 percent said their patients» mood or outlook improved.

In addition, about 38 percent of physicians plan to buy an iPad in the coming year, and approximately 59 percent of doctors that own an iPad plan to use it for medical purposes.

Sixty - three percent of physicians believe that the theory of evolution is more correct than belief in intelligent design, according to a recent poll, though the responses vary significantly by religion.

The study reported just 12.6 percent of physicians were extremely or very familiar with pharmacogenomics.

About 70 percent of physicians surveyed were in solo or group medical practice.

However, previous research found only 38 percent of physicians were highly satisfied with the system, and many believe the way a patient's health information is displayed in EHRs reduces the efficiency and productivity of patient care.

However, 91 percent of the physicians who performed salpingectomy reported no increase in complications.

While the Italian government has legalized abortion, almost 70 percent of physicians there have refused to perform the procedure, according to a United Nations report.

However, only 58 percent of physicians checked to ensure that the bacterium has been eradicated after treatment, according to the study.

Also of concern, the study found that 6 percent of physicians weren't asking patients about antibiotics that they previously had taken.

«More than 20 percent of the physicians we surveyed have been asked to sign competency permits for concealed weapons, and a majority of them do not feel they can adequately assess the physical or mental competence of their patients to safely have a concealed weapons permit.»

By 2008, the latest year for which figures are available, less than 7 percent of physicians regularly communicated with their patients electronically.

Overall, nearly 39 percent of the physicians experienced disrespectful treatment by nursing or other support staff.

Some 68 percent of the physicians in the survey were between 31 and 40 years old.

The most popular device in the United States, preferred by 67 percent of physicians, is the Gomco clamp, whose parts come in different sizes to match varying penile diameters; mismatched clamp components increase the risk of laceration.

When asked to attribute a cause of subdural hematoma, severe retinal hemorrhage, coma or death in a child less than 3 years of age, more than 80 percent of physicians responded that shaking with or without impact was likely or highly likely to produce subdural hematoma, 90 percent reported that it was likely or highly likely to lead to severe retinal hemorrhage, and 78 percent felt that it was likely or highly likely to result in a coma or death.

«In the United States, only about 10 percent of physicians practice in rural areas, and less than 3 percent of entering medical students nationally plan to practice in a rural community or small town,» said Kevin Kane, MD, a professor of family and community medicine at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

Prior studies found that 41 percent of physicians routinely question patients with lumbar disc herniation about sexual problems.

(A 2008 survey suggested that only 18 percent of physicians felt confident discussing the pros and cons of public and private cord blood donation.)

A recent study by the University of Chicago showed that seventy - six percent of physicians believe in God, and fifty - five percent say their faith influences their medical practice.

In 2008, only three percent of physicians were effectively emailing with patients.

Today, more than 80 percent of physicians are utilizing Electronic Health Records.

In 2008, only three percent of physicians

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Offices of health practitioners other than physicians and dentists, including chiropractors, optometrists, mental health practitioners, speech and occupational therapists: 5.98 percent

But only 25 percent actually have the required donor identification papers that would allow a physician to take a needed organ in the event of a documented brain death, said Marita Völker - Albert, spokesperson for the Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA), a government agency that is promoting organ donation.

Unfortunately for that argument, the physician who is the best - known practitioner of these abortions stated in 1993 that 80 percent of them are «purely elective,» not necessary to save the mother's life or health.

Moreover, of those who were concerned about a possible health problem of the fetus, only 8 percent said that a physician had told them that the fetus had a defect or was abnormal.

Demonstrating how thoroughly progressive thought — as defined by Abramson — has shattered classical liberalism in Canada's medical ranks, 79 percent of the Canadian Medical Association doctors recently voted against conscience protections for physicians opposed to participation in euthanasia.

Even if they do recognize nurse - midwives within their plan, fifty percent do not pay CNMs the same amount as physicians to the same service, and ten percent of healthcare insurers who extend contracts to nurse - midwives won't list them in their provider directories!

Since 2005 the part - time physician workforce has expanded by 62 percent, according to recent survey data from the American Medical Group Association, with nearly 4 in 10 female doctors between the ages of 35 and 44 reporting in 2010 that they worked part time.

About 4 percent of couples with recurrent miscarriages have chromosome abnormalities in one or both parents that can recur in future pregnancies, so some physicians suggest parental karyotype tests as a part of investigating the cause.

Today that number is up to 96.5 percent, the result of an intensive and united effort by nurses and physicians to educate parents about the benefits of breastfeeding.

According to a study published in «Canadian Family Physician,» an estimated 13 to 20 percent of infants that are allergic to milk proteins are also allergic to beef.

Ask your physician or midwife to check, but request confirmation through ultrasound, as physicians miss 30 percent of breech babies, according to an Australian study.

In the U.S., physicians deliver 85 percent of babies in a traditional hospital setting.

He also says 98 percent of patients in the system have access to a primary care physician and a specialist.

Lovelace is a family physician in Prosperity who earned 36 percent of the vote in a 2006 primary against Republican Gov. Mark Sanford.

More than 80 percent of emergency physicians say the mental health care systems in their -LSB-...]

The legislators, flanked by neonatal physicians, said the 3,000 premature babies born each year in the state account for 2 percent or less of births.

«It is remarkable that in both states, even participants who were deeply spiritual (52 percent) were still in support of physician - assisted death,» said the study.

In the 1940s two physicians — American psychiatrist Leo Kanner and Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger — independently discovered this developmental disorder, which afflicts about 0.5 percent of American children.

For parents of a different ethnicity, a still small portion, 11 percent, of the physicians recommended private banking — presumably because it's more difficult for these parents to find transplant matches.

Consultation with other physicians was extensive but in 11 percent (n = 7) of cases there was no independent psychiatric input and 24 percent (n = 16) of cases involved disagreements among physicians.

Among them, 21 patients (32 percent) had been refused EAS at some point but physicians later changed their mind about three of them and performed EAS, while the remaining 18 patients had physicians who were new to them perform the EAS.

In fact, 93 percent of participating physicians who used the VR method indicated higher confidence in their abilities (a score of at least 3).