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Anyone who's ever visited Washington, D.C., knows that while the National Mall is technically a federally owned park, it can't be closed. There are no fences around its 309 acres. No entrances. No guard posts. Just wide open spaces dotted with monuments and museums. There's the Washington Monument, which requires a guide to get to the top. But that's closed for repairs.
So the administration decided instead to put barricades around various other popular open-air Mall monuments to score political points in the budget shutdown standoff. That required, in turn, posting freshly printed signs explaining why they're off limits, and a police presence to guard the barricades.
"The Obama administration is going out of its way to erect barricades and have people manning them in order to keep people out," said Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash. In other words, Obama is expending more resources to close these monuments than they require to stay open.
Incredibly, this includes the Mall's World War II memorial, which prompted a group of WWII veterans to force their way past the barricades — risking arrest — to pay homage to the fallen heroes of that war.
In case there's any doubt as to who's to blame for this outrage, a spokesman for National Park Service said the White House Office of Management and Budget ordered up the blockades.
Even Bill Clinton didn't have the audacity to try such a thing during the 1995 government shutdown.
As the AP reported at the time, "tourists were free to wander the halls of the Capitol, touch the walls of the Vietnam Memorial and climb the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to read the Gettysburg Address — those and other similar sites don't require supervision of federal employees."
This isn't the first time Obama has purposefully hurt Americans to gain leverage in a political fight.
During the sequester battle earlier this year, he warned that the flyspeck budget cuts would force the administration to lay off flight controllers and border agents, turn criminals loose and deny families child care. It would, Obama said, be "a huge blow to middle-class families." To drive the point home, he canceled White House tours.
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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Aug 9, 1977
|Filing date
|Nov 10, 1976
|Priority date
|May 5, 1975
|Publication number
|C. Blish II Richard, Kyle Eugene Lemons
|Original Assignee
|Signetics Corporation
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|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (3), Referenced by (28), Classifications (13)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This is a continuation, of application Ser. No. 574,503 filed May 5, 1975, now abandoned.
It is conventional to etch glass with an aqueous solution of hydrofluoric acid buffered with ammonium flouride. However, this etching solution cannot be employed to etch a glass layer on an aluminum or other metal substrate, such as employed in wafers in the semiconductor industry because the etchant has a tendency to attack the aluminum once it has etched through the glass via.
In an article by D. S. Herman et al, entitled "Multi-Layer Metalization Process CMOS FET Devices" at page 168 of the Electro-Chemical Society Extended Abstracts from the Spring meeting in Washington, D.C., May, 1971, it is stated that the addition of a diol alcohol to the buffered hydrofluoric acid inhibits the aluminum attack. We have determined that a suitable quantity of diol alcohol (ethylene glycol) for this purpose is on the order of 50% of the etching solution. A typical formulation which has been found to be acceptable was 5 parts of buffered oxide etch (34 parts by weight of 40% aqueous ammonium fluoride, plus 5 parts of hydrofluoric acid (49% aqueous)), 5 parts of ethylene glycol and 3 parts of water. One purpose of the 3 parts extra water is to prevent precipitation of ammonium fluoride or complex double salts with silicon fluoride on the semiconductor wafers.
Since the above glycol-containing etchant solution is nearly saturated, it has a high viscosity which renders it difficult to rinse off and to etch small openings in a photoresist. Also, the mixture tends to corrode the aluminum intermittently. Additionally, ethylene glycol has become in scarce supply and is significantly more expensive due to shortages in the petrochemical industry.
It is an object of the invention to provide an etching solution capable of etching glass (amorphous SiO2 films) on an aluminum or other metal substrate which is more economical than etching solutions of the prior art.
It is another object of the invention to provide an etching solution of the foregoing type with improved etching qualities and protection of the metal in comparison to that of the prior art.
Other objects of the invention will be apparent from the following description in which the preferred embodiments have been set forth.
In accordance with the above objects, an etching composition and method has been provided particularly adapted for etching glass on an aluminum or other metal substrate. The etching portion of the solution is a conventional buffered hydrofluoric acid. Another component, sodium chloride, is believed to complex with excess water to lower the activity of the water in the presence of the hydrofluoric acid with respect to attacking the aluminum. In one embodiment, the etching solution also includes a fluorocarbon surfactant which is capable of forming a thin film upon the aluminum substrate, for protection against attack after the glass has been etched. In another embodiment, the surfactant is replaced with a small quantity of a 6-hydroxy alcohol with a similar protective effect. Either of the above systems are relatively inexpensive, have a high specific activity for pyrolytic glass in comparison to aluminum. They also provide a constant etch rate over a wide variety of dilutions, and avoid problems of precipitation by nearly saturated solutions since they can be diluted well below saturation.
An aqueous etching solution of the present invention is particularly suited to the etching of a pyrolytic glass layer on an aluminum substrate without attacking the aluminum. The basic composition includes a conventional buffered hydrofluoric acid, sodium chloride, and a third component, either a surfactant or a 6-hydroxy alcohol. The invention will be first described with respect to the surfactant-containing embodiment.
A conventional "buffered oxide etch" (BOE) is employed as the etching portion of the aqueous solution. A suitable BOE includes 34 parts by weight of a 40% aqueous ammonium fluoride solution and 5 parts by weight of a 49% hydrofluoric acid solution. Other buffered hydrofluoric acid solutions may be employed within this scope of the invention. The high degree of aqueous dilution which can be accomplished without attacking the aluminum is a major advantage of the invention. Aqueous dilution is defined as the ratio by volume of the BOE to the remainder of the water in the etchant solution.
The sodium chloride component serves to tie up or complex with the water to permit a high degree of dilution without aluminum attack when used in conjunction with the present surfactant or 6-hydroxy alcohol. In addition, the sodium chloride has been found to stabilize the etching rate over a wide range of dilutions. Other alkali halide salts may be employed for this purpose (e.g., potassium bromide). However, it has been discovered that substantially higher amounts of such other salts are required to complex with the water to the desired extent for aluminum protection. For optimum aluminum protection, the sodium chloride content is just below saturation, to the point where it begins to precipitate.
For a dilution of 1 part BOE to 4 parts of water, a sodium chloride concentration of about 1 to 3% by weight has been found sufficient to complex with the water to the desired extent for aluminum protection. For the surfactant embodiment, it ha been found that an optimum sodium chloride concentration is on the order of 1.3 to 2.3% by weight while for the 6-hydroxy alcohol component, an optimum concentration is on the order of 2% by weight.
In the surfactant-containing etching solution, a suitable surfactant should be employed which does not interfere with etching of a glass layer but which is capable of forming a thin film upon an aluminum substrate to protect the aluminum from attack by hydrofluoric acid. A fluorocarbon surfactant has been found to be particularly effective in the presence of the sodium chloride without the requirement for an organic solvent. One effective surfactant for this purpose is sold under the designation "Fluorocarbon No. 134" by 3M Company. It is a cationic brown waxy solid material which adsorbs upon metals, specifically aluminum. The hydrophilic end of the surfactant adsorbs upon the aluminum while the hydrophobic end projects into the etching solution and protects the aluminum from the hydrofluoric acid.
Only a relatively small concentration of the fluorocarbon as surfactant is required to protect the aluminum in the presence of sodium chloride. This indicates that the surfactant forms a very thin almost monomolecular layer on the aluminum. Concentrations of Fluorocarbon No. 134 on the order of 2 to 1000 parts per million and preferably 500 parts per million, serve to provide the desired degree of protection.
Etching solutions which include BOE, sodium chloride, and fluorocarbon surfactant have been found to be highly insensitive to the degree of dilution in water. Thus, dilutions from 1 part of BOE to 1 part of water to as high as 30 parts of water does not significantly effect the etch rate. Expressed in a different manner, the etching rate on pyrolytic glass does not change when the hydrofluoric acid concentration varies from 0.2% to as high as 6% by weight of the composition. However, the etch rate on dense thermal oxides is directly proportional to hydrofluoric acid concentrations over this range. Accordingly, the more dilute solutions are highly selective with respect to pyrolytic glass and are must less active with respect to thermal oxides.
In an alternative embodiment to the surfactant-containing solution of the present invention, it has been found that the surfactant may be replaced with a 6-hydroxy alcohol while providing protection for the aluminum.
It has been found that a suitable composition includes a dilution of 1 part BOE to 4 parts water together with 2% sodium chloride and 3% mannitol or 4% sorbitol.
The above etching solutions are effective for etching pyrolytic glass, commonly phosphosilicate. Such glass is particularly useful in the fabrication of integrated circuit wafers, namely for scratch protection, or as a dialectic separation from another conductor such as aluminum, doped polycrystalline silicon, or other metals and alloys. After deposition, the glass may be delineated into patterns by a masking process to permit appropriate contacts. Thus, the etchants must etch the silica-containing glass but not lift off the photo-resist mask or harm the underlying layer. The etchant of the present invention is suitable for etching any pyrolytic glass, e.g., boron, phosphorous, or arsenic, doped or undoped glasses, so long as the glass is not fully densified (e.g., a thermal oxide). Such glasses are relatively porous and so are more readily etched than such thermal oxides.
A method for carrying out the above process is as follows. An aqueous solution is formed comprising one part by volume of BOE and 4 parts by volume of water. The BOE is the same composition set forth above. In one method, 2% sodium chloride and 500 parts per million of surfactant (3M brand designation "Fluorocarbon No. 134") are added to this mixture. Pyrolytic glass coated aluminum substrates are continuously dipped into this solution during the course of an eight-hour shift. It is found that the etch rate is nearly constant during this period of time with a normal flux of wafers. The etch rate does not begin to fall off until the etching capacity (i.e., hydrofluoric acid) is reduced to on the order of 30% of the initial value set forth above.
The above procedure is repeated in two additional runs; one in which 3% by weight of mannitol is substitued for the surfactant; and the other in which 4% by weight of sorbitol is substituted for the mannitol. The same uniform etching rate is obtained in these two last named runs.
Although the above description refers to etching glass on an aluminum substrate, it is also applicable to other metal substrates which are attacked by hydrofluoric acid.
It is apparent from the foregoing that an etching composition for a glass layer on an aluminum or other metal substrate while preventing attack on the substrate has been provided which is substantially less expensive than the ethylene glycol containing composition for this purpose. This is because of the large amount of ethylene glycol required in comparison to either the surfactant or 6-hydroxy alcohol components of the etch solution in the presence of sodium chloride. In addition, the precipitation problem of the glycol containing etch solution is avoided. Also, the present solution is relatively dilute and so is low in viscosity. This enables the present solution to be readily rinsed off and to etch small openings in photoresist and also conserves the buffered hydrofluoric acid.
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|Mar 18, 1968
|Oct 26, 1971
|Dearborn Glass Co
|Method of producing glare-reducing glass surface
|Jan 15, 1969
|Feb 15, 1972
|Etching composition indication
|Mar 29, 1971
|Feb 6, 1973
|Gen Instrument Corp
|Aluminum etching solution
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|Publication date
|Apr 14, 1978
|May 15, 1979
|Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated
|Electroless deposition of gold
|Dec 29, 1978
|Oct 28, 1980
|International Business Machines Corporation
|Etchant for silicon dioxide films disposed atop silicon or metallic silicides
|May 4, 1979
|May 5, 1981
|Rca Corporation
|Etching of optical fibers
|Sep 29, 1983
|Nov 26, 1985
|Saelzle Erich
|Method of polishing glass articles in an acid bath
|May 13, 1985
|Nov 4, 1986
|Allied Corporation
|Soluble fluorinated cycloalkane sulfonate surfactant additives for NH4
|Jan 27, 1987
|Aug 2, 1988
|Olin Corporation
|Etching solutions containing ammonium fluoride and an alkyl polyaccharide surfactant
|Sep 21, 1987
|Jan 3, 1989
|Hashimoto Chemical Industries Co., Ltd.
|Surface treating composition for micro processing
|Feb 28, 1990
|Mar 31, 1992
|At&T Bell Laboratories
|Optical fiber with an integral lens at its end portion
|Dec 23, 1991
|Apr 6, 1993
|At&T Bell Laboratories
|Wet chemical etching technique for optical fibers
|Apr 21, 1993
|Jan 11, 1994
|Hashimoto Chemical Industries Co., Ltd.
|Surface treatment agent for fine surface treatment
|Jun 7, 1995
|Dec 9, 1997
|Micron Display Technology, Inc.
|Silicon dioxide etch process which protects metal
|Dec 4, 1995
|Sep 1, 1998
|Micron Technology, Inc.
|Etching process which protects metal
|Jan 10, 1997
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|Micron Display Technology, Inc.
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|Jun 10, 1998
|Feb 22, 2000
|Micron Technology, Inc.
|Etching process which protects metal
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|Nov 28, 2000
|Micorn Technology, Inc.
|Polyimide as a mask in vapor hydrogen fluoride etching and method of producing a micropoint
|Jul 1, 1998
|Dec 19, 2000
|Micron Technology, Inc.
|Polyimide as a mask in vapor hydrogen fluoride etching
|Jan 10, 1997
|Feb 6, 2001
|Micron Technology, Inc.
|Semiconductor material produced by improved etch process which protects metal
|Aug 24, 2000
|Nov 13, 2001
|Micron Technology, Inc.
|Method for etching doped polysilicon with high selectivity to undoped polysilicon
|Sep 8, 1998
|Oct 28, 2003
|Micron Technology, Inc.
|Silicon dioxide etch process which protects metals
|Apr 5, 1999
|Dec 21, 2004
|Micron Technology, Inc.
|Etching compositions
|Nov 27, 2000
|Oct 31, 2006
|Micron Technology, Inc.
|Polyimide as a mask in vapor hydrogen fluoride etching
|Dec 12, 2005
|Dec 7, 2010
|Applied Materials, Inc.
|Solution for the selective removal of metal from aluminum substrates
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|Mar 5, 2013
|Applied Materials, Inc.
|Solution for the selective removal of metal from aluminum substrates
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|Jun 25, 2013
|Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials Llc
|Method of forming current tracks on semiconductors
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|Jun 21, 2001
|Garry A. Mercaldi
|Method for etching doped polysilicon with high selectivity to undoped polysilicon
|Dec 12, 2005
|Jun 22, 2006
|Epton Jeremy W
|Solution for the selective removal of metal from aluminum substrates
|Aug 7, 2001
|Sep 1, 2004
|Agilent Technologies Inc., A Delaware Corporation
|Post-etch cleaning treatment
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|European Classification


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WAMC's North Country Bureau Chief Pat Bradley reports… Officials say with the new system the state will be able determine, for example, how many students have taken geometry by ninth grade or attended full-day kindergarten. Petitioners Ask VT Council to Reconsider Jet Vote By Pat Bradley • Jun 20, 2012 Photo by Pat Bradley More than 1,600 people in the area of South Burlington, Vt., have signed a petition in support of locating new Air Guard jets at Burlington International Airport. WAMC's Pat Bradley reports… The petition presented Monday urges the South Burlington City Council to reconsider its opposition to basing the new jets locally. The Council voted last month against basing the F-35A at the Vermont Air Guard base. It sent questions to the Air Force related to a draft environmental impact statement related to elevated noise levels. 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WAMC's North Country Bureau Chief Pat Bradley reports… Administration Secretary Jeb Spaulding says the state expects it will have to pay about $110 million for its share of the repair costs. Spaulding and other top state officials gave a briefing Thursday on the efforts to recover from the biggest natural disaster in almost a century. Nurses at VT's Largest Hospital Dislike Offer By Tristan O'Neill • Jun 14, 2012 Unionized nurses at Vermont's largest hospital say they don't like Fletcher Allen Health Care's latest contract offer. WAMC's Tristan O'Neill reports… The main dispute between the nurses at the Burlington hospital and the administration is over staffing levels and shift schedules. The hospital wants to save money by having nurses work flexible schedules, but the nurses say the hospital's proposals will lead to inadequate staffing and unsafe conditions for patients. 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Perhaps you are new to your faith, or, if you are like me, you are seeking God's guidance in your life (it's an on-going process!). It doesn't matter where you are in your faith journey, what matters is that you are stepping out! Every journey requires taking that first step, then stepping again and again.
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How My Journey with The Guided Life Started
My husband Robert gave me the greatest gift in 2008 when he told me to quit my corporate job to write and create. Little did I know that my mother would have health issues that would require a lot of my care and that at the end of 2009 Robert would lose his job. He was our only source of income.
My mother continued to have health issues that required taking care of all of her financial responsibilities and her well being. At times, all I could do was to put one foot in front of the other to keep going.
Through all of this time, God has provided in amazing ways. My mother is now 95 and doing well. The Guided Life has been my own personal journal of sorts, sharing this faith journey. I love hearing from ezine readers and offering help or fulfilling prayer requests.
Since leaving the traditional workforce, I have truly lived being still, letting go and trusting God. I have discovered that these are the three keys to live life from a place of peace, power and purpose.
Sometimes we'll make tremendous progress and sometimes we will take a few steps back. That is the nature of the spiritual path. What's important is to keep moving!
Being Still, Letting Go, Trusting God through Meditation
We live in a world that is constantly connected, where stressing and striving is rewarded and more is expected. The Psalmist says, "Be still and know that I am God." Being still is not easy. It may cause you to address deep wounds that you have kept buried.
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If negative thoughts of fear, doubts, and judgments are cluttering your mind, the Be Still guided meditation can help. If you are seeking a deeper relationship with God, Be Still will help. If you are holding onto the past, holding onto judgments, or guilt that can weigh you down, Let it Go will help you.
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Did you know that right now, someone could be judging your company's brand based on your email, website content or recent newsletter? After reading each piece, what impression do you think they have: a consistent, well-crafted brand experience or a disjointed story that fails to support any unified purpose?
Whether or not you're directly involved in your company's marketing or communications, every touchpoint you offer the marketplace affects your brand's reputation. At Zuula Consulting, we find that while many companies have a thorough understanding of their visual brand (logos, colors and overall design standards), they frequently overlook another highly important component: the verbal brand.
A verbal brand unites and guides your messages' content and personality so your audiences cohesively understand your company. From our perspective, an effective verbal brand must address three key components: your brand purpose, brand story and brand voice. Your brand purpose captures the reason why you're in business and how you're different than competitors. Knowing these details helps identify your brand story — the unified message expressing your company's purpose. With those attributes established, you create your brand voice: the tone, personality and key phrases that share your brand story in all communication.
Together, these pieces build a solid brand experience where you reinforce exactly who your company is, what you value and why your audiences need you — with every communication. Without a succinct, powerful verbal brand, you risk confusing consumers with inconsistency, creating doubt about your company's purpose and strength.
In fact, imagine your business is an actual person. And with every contact, their personality differs: One day they're soft-spoken and demure; another day, charming and outgoing; and yet another day, abrasive and serious. At first, their inconsistencies confuse you. Eventually, your inability to understand them makes you question whether they're dishonest. With distrust embedded, you now avoid seeing them at all.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Less than a year ago, Tom Brady, Logan Mankins, Osi Umenyiora and seven other players filed an antitrust suit against the NFL, a key moment in a convoluted and contentious labor dispute between the union and league that threatened to cut short — or even wipe out — the 2011 season.
On Sunday, Brady and Mankins of the New England Patriots and Umenyiora of the New York Giants will play in a Super Bowl that might very well draw more viewers than any TV show in history.
What lockout? What recession?
Nothing, it seems, can get in the way of the NFL, whose ratings and revenues climb and climb, no matter what. Indeed, some say both those issues managed to push even more attention and money the league's way.
Put simply, the NFL has the Midas Touch.
"The uncertainty of the lockout — 'Will it be settled? When will the deal come? Will it happen?' — created a sense of anticipation for the new season. It fed into the public's awareness of the NFL. Even the concussion stories helped, because the public has become aware of the issue and is watching games to see how the rules are enforced, to see how the game changes," said Neal Pilson, a former president of CBS Sports who now runs a media consulting firm.
"They talk about it Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and they watch it on Sunday," Pilson said. "The more separate issues related to the NFL that become part of the public discourse feed into the audiences."
NFL games accounted for 23 of the 25 most-watched telecasts last fall, and a total of 37 games drew at least 20 million viewers each.
That, Pilson says, is at least in part a result of the country's financial state. After all, what's cheaper than plopping down on the couch to watch a game?
"Sports is, to a certain extent, recession-proof. You can see a sports event 10 different ways: on television, on your laptop, on your iPad, on your mobile phone, in bars and restaurants, in airports. There's no other entertainment property that is so ubiquitous," Pilson said. "When the economy went south, guess what? Americans stayed home, made a single investment in hi-definition television and watched sports. And what they watch more than anything is the NFL."
The last two Super Bowls were the two most-viewed programs in U.S. television history.
NBC Sports Group Chairman Mark Lazarus is eager to see how many people tune in for his network's broadcast of Sunday's championship game between the Patriots and Giants. It's a rematch of the 2008 Super Bowl, when Eli Manning led New York to an upset that ruined New England's bid for a perfect season.
"We're optimistic this has a chance to be the largest TV audience ever," Lazarus said. "This is a great rivalry game, with two of the most prolific franchises. They come with big markets. And they're both Eastern markets."
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Janelle N. SOBECKI, MA1, Farr A. CURLIN, MD2, Kenneth A. RASINSKI, Ph.D3, and Stacy
Tessler LINDAU, MD, MAPP4
1The University of Chicago- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2Associate Professor of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine and the MacLean Center
for Clinical Medical Ethics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
3Research Associate, The University of Chicago Section of General Internal Medicine, Chicago,
Illinois, USA
4Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Medicine, Section of Geriatrics, the
Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the Center on Demography and Economics of Aging Core
on Biomeasures in Population-Based Aging Research
Introduction—Sexuality is a key aspect of women's physical and psychological health.
Research shows both patients and physicians face barriers to communication about sexuality.
Given their expertise and training in addressing conditions of the female genital tract across the
female life course, obstetrician/gynecologists (ob/gyns) are well-positioned among all physicians
to address sexuality issues with female patients. New practice guidelines for management of
female sexual dysfunction and the importance of female sexual behavior and function to virtually
all aspects of ob/gyn care, and to women's health more broadly, warrant up-to-date information
regarding ob/gyns' sexual history-taking routine.
Aims—To determine obstetrician/gynecologists' practices of communication with patients about
sexuality, and to examine the individual and practice-level correlates of such communication.
Methods—A population-based sample of 1154 practicing U.S. obstetrician/gynecologists (53%
male; mean age 48 years) was surveyed regarding their practices of communication with patients
about sex.
Main Outcome Measures—Self-reported frequency measures of ob/gyns' communication
practices with patients including whether or not ob/gyns discuss patients' sexual activities, sexual
orientation, satisfaction with sexual life, pleasure with sexual activity, and sexual problems or
dysfunction, as well as whether or not one ever expresses disapproval of or disagreement with
patients' sexual practices. Multivariable analysis was used to correlate physicians' personal and
practice characteristics with these communication practices.
Results—Survey response rate was 65.6%. Sixty-three percent of ob/gyns reported routinely
assessing patients' sexual activities; 40% routinely asked about sexual problems. Fewer asked
1Title adapted from the following: Carter, Raymond. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. USA: Vintage Books, 1989.
Corresponding Author: Janelle Sobecki, MA, Primary: firstname.lastname@example.com, Secondary: email@example.com.
Conflict of Interest: None
This study was conducted at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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about sexual satisfaction (28.5%), sexual orientation/identity (27.7%), or pleasure with sexual
activity (13.8%). A quarter of ob/gyns reported they had expressed disapproval of patients' sexual
practices. Ob/gyns practicing predominately gynecology were significantly more likely than other
ob/gyns to routinely ask about each of the five outcomes investigated.
Conclusion—The majority of U.S. ob/gyns report routinely asking patients about their sexual
activities, but most other areas of patients' sexuality are not routinely discussed.
Female Sexuality; Patient-Physician Communication; Sexual History-Taking; Female Sexual
The introduction of sildenafil citrate and other effective therapies to treat male erectile
dysfunction has prompted renewed attention to female sexuality and the development of
definitions and treatments for female sexual dysfunction.1, 2, 3, 4 Recently, the American
College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists published its first Practice Bulletin on female
sexual dysfunction.5 As women become more aware of the biological and medical aspects of
female sexual dysfunction, they are likely to increase their demand for medical counsel
regarding sexuality. Studies show patients would like to discuss sexuality-related issues with
their physicians but are often reluctant to do so because of fear the physician will be
embarrassed or will dismiss their concern.6, 7 Similarly, studies of physicians suggest that
lack of time or training, fear of embarrassing themselves or their patients, and physicians'
own religious beliefs8 influence discussion about sexuality-related issues with patients.9–11
Recent studies estimate that about a third of young and middle-aged women12 and about half
of older women13 experience some sort of sexual problem such as low desire, difficulty
lubricating, pain during intercourse, lack of pleasure, or inability to orgasm. Sexual
behavior, such having multiple partners, having unprotected sex, or having sex with high
risk individuals, has been associated with various health risks, including sexually transmitted
infections, HIV, and pelvic inflammatory disease. These conditions can compromise
women's reproductive and overall health.14 Many sexuality-related issues, like some
sexually transmitted infections, anorgasmia, lack of sexual satisfaction, and sexual desire
disorders, show no physical signs, making patient-physician communication particularly
important for identifying problems and promoting positive sexual health outcomes.
Few studies have investigated the specific content of the physician sexual-history taking or
how physicians assess patients' sexual function and satisfaction. Physician characteristics
such as gender,10, 11, 15, 16 age,10, 11, 17 race,17 sexual orientation,18 location of medical
education,15 and type of practice15 have been investigated with mixed results in studies of
physicians of various medical specialties. Some studies show female physicians are
significantly more likely to discuss sexual activity11 and screen patients for Chlamydia,16
while others reported no significant association between gender and sexual history-taking15
or screening for sexual dysfunction.10 Previous studies show younger physicians are
significantly associated with better HIV prevention practices17 and more likely to take
sexual histories19 while others found no significant association between physician age and
asking about sexual activity11 or screening patients for sexual dysfunction.10 Previous
studies are limited by small samples15, 18 or samples drawn from single states or cities in the
U.S.,11, 16, 18, 20 which lack sufficient power to generate national estimates about
obstetrician/gynecologist (ob/gyn) practices.
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Previous studies that include physicians across various specialties show that ob/gyns are
more likely than other physicians to report taking a sexual history,11, 16 to have more
positive attitudes toward treating and counseling patients about sexually-transmitted
infections,20 and to ask about specific sexual health risk factors such as condom use and
high-risk sex partners.21 Despite the importance of female sexual behavior and function to
virtually all aspects of ob/gyn care, little is known about the sexual history-taking routines of
Ob/gyns, because of the depth and specialization of expertise and training in female genital
tract and reproductive health across the life course, are well positioned among physicians to
address sexuality issues with female patients. This study uses a national probability sample
to investigate U.S. ob/gyns' self-reported practices of communication with patients
regarding sexuality focusing specifically on those ob/gyns who routinely incorporate sexual
history-taking into their interactions with patients. It explores a hypothesized association
between those communication practices and ob/gyns' practice and individual characteristics.
Knowledge about these practices is important to the successful implementation of the recent
ACOG Practice Guidelines and to quality improvement in women's health care.5
Study Population
The methods for this national survey have been described in detail in another
publication.22–24 In 2008, a national probability sample of currently practicing physicians
from across the U.S. listing ob/gyn as their primary specialty was selected from the
American Medical Association Physician Master File, a database intended to include all
physicians in the U.S..
Eligible physicians were notified by mail that they would receive a questionnaire soon on
topics related to sexual and reproductive health. The letter asked for their cooperation in
completing and sending back the questionnaire. Because all of the respondents were adults
and the survey was conducted completely by mail, the respondent's return of the
questionnaire constituted their informed consent to participate. This protocol and the
questionnaire were reviewed and approved by a University of Chicago Institutional Review
Data Collection
Questionnaires were administered by postal mail between October 2008 and January 2009
including an advance letter, post card reminder, and three rounds of questionnaire mailings.
Respondents were incentivized with a $20 bill included in the first mailing, and an
additional $30 was offered in the third mailing. Of 1800 potential respondents, forty were
declared out of scope: 38 surveys were returned after multiple attempts were made to
contact respondents at different addresses, one respondent had retired, and another had
moved out of the country.
Building on prior work,8, 13, 25, 26 the overall purpose of the survey was to obtain national
estimates of ob/gyns' knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding aspects of patient care
that may be considered by some as morally or ethically challenging, and how physicians'
individual, including religious, characteristics influence these domains. A self-administered
questionnaire was developed after qualitative interviews with a purposive sample of ob/gyn
physicians8 and in consultation with prominent ob-gyn physician researchers and ethicists in
the field. Interviews were conducted with a small purposive sample of physicians around the
country on selected questions to assess comprehensibility and relevance to practice.
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Questionnaires were pre-tested with ob-gyn faculty members at The University of Chicago
Pritzker School of Medicine.
Respondents were asked to provide individual (demographic, religious) and practice
characteristics using 41 close-ended questionnaire items. This included the frequency with
which ob/gyns addressed various aspects of patients' sexuality. Self-reported
communication with patients about sexuality was assessed using the following statement and
items: "We are interested in doctors' practices about talking to their patients about sexuality.
Please take a minute to think back and indicate how often you do each of the following: a)
ask patients about their sexual activities, b) ask patients about their sexual orientation or
identity, c) ask patients if they are satisfied with their sexual life, d) ask patients if they
experience pleasure with sexual activity, e) ask patients questions to assess for sexual
problems or dysfunction, f) express to patients disapproval of or disagreement with their
sexual practices." Response options were "routinely," "sometimes," "rarely," or "never."
Descriptive analyses stratified by physician gender were performed. Bivariate and
multivariable logistic regression were used to analyze each of the 6 outcomes. Likelihood of
asking patients about sexual activities, orientation/identity, satisfaction, pleasure, and
problems/dysfunction were each modeled dichotomously comparing those who reported
they "routinely" asked versus all others. Likelihood of expressing disapproval of or
disagreement with patients' sexual practices was modeled dichotomously comparing those
who reported they "never" did versus all others.
Informed by prior research on physician characteristics known to influence
communication11, 15, 16 and by bivariate findings, these multivariable models included as
covariates self-reported: gender (male, female), age group (45 years and younger, 46–59
years, 60 years and older), type of patients seen, location of medical school (U.S. vs.
foreign), immigration history (American-born, foreign-born), religious affiliation (none,
Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Roman Catholic, Evangelical Protestant, Non-evangelical
Protestant), and importance of religion to the physician (most important, very important,
fairly important, not important). Type of patients seen was defined as predominantly
obstetrics, predominantly gynecology, or general ob/gyn practice. "Predominantly" was
defined as seeing more than 60% of a specific patient type (obstetrics, gynecology) per
week. "General ob/gyn practice" was defined as seeing 40–60% of gynecology and 40–60%
of obstetrics patients per week. Gynecology included outpatient gynecology and operating-
room based gynecologic procedures and surgery. Obstetrics included prenatal care and
Results are presented as adjusted odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals. Respondents
leaving questions blank were omitted from the analyses pertaining to those items. A total of
81 respondents across the six regression analyses had missing values on one or more
variables. The prevalence of missing values was greater among foreign- versus American-
born (9.1% vs. 4.7%, respectively p<.001) and among those with no religious affiliation
(11.7%) compared to others (lowest missing 2.2%, Hindu and Non-Evangelical Protestants).
The analyses included case weights to account for sampling strategy and differences in
response rate by ethnic surname and foreign medical school graduation status. Weights were
used for all analyses to adjust for differential probabilities of selection and differential non-
response. All analyses were completed using Stata statistical software, version 10.1.27
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Respondent Characteristics
Of 1760 eligible participants, 1154 surveys were completed yielding an unweighted
response rate of 65.6% (weighted 67.3%). Seven additional participants were eliminated
because they were not board certified in ob/gyn (n=6), and one was no longer practicing
medicine. The total number of participants included in this study was 1147. Compared with
respondents, non-respondents were more likely to be foreign medical graduates. Mean age
of respondents was 48 years (weighted SD 8.95), and 53% were male. Thirty percent
identified their religious affiliation as Non-evangelical Protestant, 28% as Roman Catholic,
12% as Jewish, 12% as Evangelical Protestant, and 12% reported no religious affiliation.
Forty-three percent saw predominantly gynecology patients. The personal and practice
characteristics of respondents are summarized in Table 1.
The frequency with which ob/gyns reported addressing sexuality-related topics is illustrated
in Figure 1. Sixty-three percent of ob/gyns surveyed reported that they routinely ask about
patients' sexual activities. A smaller proportion reported routinely asking patients about
sexual problems or dysfunction (40%), satisfaction with sexual life (29%), and sexual
identity or orientation (28%). Only 14% reported routinely asking patients if they experience
pleasure with sexual activity; one in ten ob/gyns (10%) never asked this question. The
majority of ob/gyns (75%) reported that they never express disapproval of or disagreement
with patients' sexual practices.
Asking about patient sexuality
In bivariate analyses, female ob/gyns were significantly more likely than male ob/gyns to
routinely ask patients about sexual activity (73% vs. 54%, p<.001) and sexual orientation or
identity (39% vs. 17%, p<.001). Ob/gyns ages 60 and older were significantly less likely
than younger colleagues to routinely ask patients about their sexual orientation or identity
(11% as compared to 32% of those 45 years and younger and 28% of those 46–59 years, p<.
001). Foreign medical graduates were more likely than U.S. graduates to routinely ask
patients about sexual orientation or identity (82% as compared to 71%, p<.01). Ob/gyns
born in the U.S. were more likely than foreign-born ob/gyns to routinely ask patients about
sexual satisfaction (30% vs. 23%, p<.05) and about sexual problems or dysfunction (42% vs.
33%, p<.05). No significant differences in the likelihood of routinely addressing any of the
domains of sexuality were found by physician race, religious affiliation, or importance of
religion to the physicians' life.
Gynecologists were significantly more likely than general ob/gyns and obstetricians to
routinely ask patients about sexual activities (71% vs. 59% and 57%, p<.001), orientation or
identity (32% vs. 26% and 22%, p<.05), and sexual problems or dysfunction (46% vs. 37%
and 33%, p<.01).
As shown in Table 2, multivariable analysis revealed significant associations between ob/
gyns' personal and practice characteristics and their communication practices with patients
about sexuality (Table 2). Female ob/gyns were significantly more likely than male ob/gyns
to routinely ask about sexual activities (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] 1.98 [95% CI 1.44 –
2.72]) and sexual orientation/identity ([AOR] 2.92 [95% CI 2.09 – 4.08). Physicians
younger than 60 years old were significantly more likely than those 60 and older to routinely
ask patients about their sexual orientation/identity (46–59 years old, [AOR] 2.50 [95% CI
1.28 – 4.50; 45 years old and younger, [AOR] 2.40 [95% CI 1.32 – 4.73]). Physicians
identifying their religious affiliation as Roman Catholic ([AOR] 0.54 [95% CI 0.30 – 0.98])
were significantly less likely to routinely ask patients about their sexual activity. Those
listing religion as the most important part of their lives were significantly more likely to
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