TABLE 1.
Sample Characteristics and Associations With Patient-Perceived Diagnostic Breakdowns
| Patient, Appointment, and Survey Characteristics |
All Negative Commenters N = 2525 |
Diagnostic Breakdown n = 619 |
No Diagnostic Breakdown n = 1906 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Continuous Characteristics | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | P |
|
| ||||
| Patient age | 62.3 (14.3) | 61.2 (15.0) | 62.6 (14.0) | 0.037 |
| Elapsed days (from appointment to survey response) | 15.8 (17.7) | 17.7 (18.9) | 15.2 (17.2) | 0.002* |
| Categorical characteristics | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |
| Patient sex | 0.033 | |||
| Male | 881 (34.9) | 194 (22.0) | 687 (78.2) | |
| Female | 1644 (65.1) | 425 (25.9) | 1219 (74.2) | |
| Patient race† | 0.48 | |||
| White | 1588 (68.5) | 378 (23.8) | 1210 (76.2) | |
| Black | 598 (25.8) | 156(26.1) | 442 (73.9) | |
| Other | 133 (5.7) | 35 (26.3) | 98 (73.7) | |
| Visit type‡ | 0.153 | |||
| In person | 931 (39.5) | 242 (26.0) | 689 (74.0) | |
| Telehealth | 1427 (60.5) | 334 (23.4) | 1093 (76.6) | |
| Survey distribution | 0.001* | |||
| Internet | 1928 (76.4) | 443 (23.0) | 1485 (77.0) | |
| Paper | 597 (23.6) | 176 (29.5) | 421 (70.5) | |
*
Significant after Benjamini-Hochberg correction to control false discovery rate.
†
Missing data: n = 206 (8.1%).
‡
Missing data: n = 167 (6.6%).