Table 1: Baseline demographic between providers who were exposed and not exposed to academic detailing.

Variables AD-exposed (N = 1813) AD-unexposed (N = 14,180) P-value
Age (years), mean (SD) 50.8 (9.7) 49.6 (10.9) < 0.001
Male, n (%) 917 (50.6%) 7,568 (53.4%) 0.025
FTEE, mean (SD) 0.96 (0.15) 0.85 (0.30) < 0.001
Month employed by VHA, mean (SD) 33.6 (118.0) 47.1 (133.0) < 0.001

AD: Academic detailing; FTEE: Full time equivalent employee; SD: Standard deviation; VHA: Veterans Health Administration