Challenges in the care of patients with RET-altered thyroid cancer: a multicountry mixed-methods study

Table 1 Descriptive statistics by study phase.

		Semi-structured interviews (n = 44)		Online survey (n = 378)		Total (n = 422)
		%	n	%	n	%	n
Country	Germany	27	12	24	90	24	102
	United Kingdom	18	8	25	96	25	104
	Japan	27	12	19	73	20	85
	United States	27	12	32	119	31	131
Specialty	Medical oncologists	36	12	35	133	34	145
	Endocrinologists	27	16	41	154	40	170
	Pathologists	36	16	24	91	25	107
Years of practice	3–10 years	56	7	25	96	24	103
	11–20 years	27	25	51	191	51	216
	21 years or more	16	12	21	91	24	103
Practice setting	NCCN-affiliated / NCI-designated cancer center	0	0	1	3	1	3
	Specialized cancer center	23	10	6	21	7	31
	Academic hospital	39	17	47	178	46	195
	Community hospital	16	7	14	52	14	59
	Community clinic	5	2	1	4	1	6
	Multi-specialty physician group practice	7	3	18	66	16	69
	Single-specialty physician group practice	5	2	9	33	8	35
	Solo practice	7	3	5	18	5	21
	Government medicine (e.g. Veterans Affairs)	0	0	0.3	1	0.2	1
	Other	0	0	0.5	2	0.5	2
Academic affiliation	Yes (practice setting is academic affiliated)	61	17	54	202	52	219
Academic affiliation	No (practice setting is community based)	39	27	46	174	48	201

Table shows sample demographics obtained from the qualitative phase (semistructured interviews) and quantitative phase (online survey). Significant differences were found in years of practice and academic affiliation depending on country in the quantitative phase sample (p < 0.05): 3–10 years (13% in Germany, 24% in the United Kingdom, 26% in Japan, 35% in the United States), 11–20 years (70% in Germany, 45% in the United Kingdom, 44% in Japan, 46% in the United States), 21 years or more (17% in Germany, 31% in the United Kingdom, 30% in Japan, 20% in the United States), and academic affiliation (56% in Germany, 83% in the United Kingdom, 55% in Japan and 28% in the United States).
Bold for % and italics for n were used to increase legibility of the table.

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