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Table 4 Patient and physician characteristics

From: Patients’ and physicians’ disagreement on patients’ understanding of clinical cancer trial information: a pairwise pilot study of mirroring subjective assessments compared with objective measurements

  

Patients (n = 46)

Physicians (n = 17)

  

Number (%) or median (range)

Number (%) or median (range)

Gender

Female

37 (80.4%)

5 (29.4%)

Male

9 (19.6%)

12 (70.6%)

Age

Median age, years (range)

62 (21–76)

51 (32–65)

Educational level

Compulsory school (1–9 years)

7 (15.2%)

0 (0%)

Senior high school or vocational training (10–12 years)

16 (34.8%)

0 (0%)

College or university (13–16 years)

23 (50.0%)

17 (100%)

Participation in clinical trial

Previous participation in a clinical trial

6 (13.0%)

Next of kin has participated in a clinical trial

4 (8.7%)

Years working in Oncology

Years (range)

17 (3–35)

Working as

Resident physician

2 (11.8%)

Specialist in oncology

15 (88.2%)

Number of patients included in clinical trials

< 10

4 (23.5%)

10–100

11 (64.7%)

> 100

2 (11.8%)