Table 3.
Treatment rate by provider type, clinic type, and region, (N = 544)a
| Treatment approach | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treat | Refer | Neither Treat nor Refer | p-value | ||||
| Characteristic | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Overalla | 153 | 28.1 | 384 | 70.6 | 7 | 1.3 | |
| Provider Type | 0.002 | ||||||
| Physician | 112 | 31.1 | 245 | 68.1 | 3 | 0.8 | |
| Nurse Practitioner | 23 | 19.0 | 94 | 77.7 | 4 | 3.3 | |
| Physician Assistant | 14 | 23.7 | 45 | 76.3 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Pharm D | 4 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Facility Type | < 0.001 | ||||||
| Community Health | 82 | 29.6 | 192 | 69.3 | 3 | 1.1 | |
| Public Health | 6 | 26.1 | 14 | 60.9 | 3 | 13.0 | |
| Private Practice Clinic | 19 | 15.1 | 107 | 84.9 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Specialist Clinic | 14 | 58.3 | 10 | 41.7 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Government/Federal Agency | 9 | 36.0 | 16 | 64.0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Managed Care Health Clinic | 6 | 17.1 | 29 | 82.9 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Other/multiple sites | 16 | 53.3 | 14 | 46.7 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Region of WA State | 0.311 | ||||||
| East | 11 | 24.4 | 33 | 73.3 | 1 | 2.2 | |
| North | 11 | 32.4 | 23 | 67.7 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| North central | 7 | 38.9 | 11 | 61.1 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Northwest | 11 | 35.5 | 20 | 64.5 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Puget Sound | 90 | 28.3 | 226 | 71.1 | 2 | 0.6 | |
| South Central | 9 | 26.5 | 23 | 67.7 | 2 | 5.9 | |
| Southwest | 6 | 26.1 | 17 | 73.9 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| West | 8 | 20.0 | 30 | 75.0 | 2 | 5.0 | |
aThree providers missing treatment data