HES data also provide additional information on specialty, diagnosis, operation, type of admission (waiting list, booked and planned) and length of stay.
To analyze the data based on specialty, the IPM specialties were described as those providers designated in IPM -09, pain medicine -72, anesthesiology -05, physical medicine and rehabilitation -25, neurology -13, psychiatry -26, orthopedic surgery -20, and neurosurgery -14 [ 33].
There is little overall sales data on this specialty segment of the market.
30 The Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences physician database contains data on the specialty of all healthcare providers in Ontario.
Finally, we obtained data on physician specialty from publicly available practitioner profiles maintained by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration.
Providers self-reported data on demographics, specialty, years of experience using an EHR, and avidity for being an "early adopter" of information technologies in general [ 14].
Established by the AMA in 1906, the Physician Masterfile includes current and historical data for more than 1.4 million physicians, residents, and medical students in the U.S, including data on demographics, specialty, experience, medical school training, and residency.
The survey also collected data on respondents specialty, type of practice (solo, group office or Health Management Organization setting), number of years in practice, socio-demographic information, whether pediatricians rely on practice guidelines for the management of fever, the provision of education to parents regarding the management of fever, and geographic location of practice.
Data on other specialties will follow.
The CTS did not have data on some specialties mentioned by Dorsey et al8 including anesthesiology, pathology, and diagnostic radiology.
