Table 2.
Characteristics of VA Facilities (N=126)
| Domain | Mean or % | Standard Deviation |
|---|---|---|
| Female patient caseload | ||
| Number of female patients between ages 18 and 45* | 745.5 | 406 to 1,099 |
| Organizational characteristics | ||
| Practice structure for women's primary care (%) | ||
| Designated provider in general primary care | 23.0 | |
| Separate women's health clinic | 28.7 | |
| Designated provider in general primary care and separate women's health clinic | 23.8 | |
| No special arrangement | 24.6 | |
| Proportion of female patients assigned to female primary care physician† | 4.6 | 1.3 |
| Gynecologist onsite (%) | 66.4 | |
| Integration of women's and men's primary care services‡ | 4.1 | 2.9 |
| Hospital-based practice (%) | 89.7 | |
| Authority of senior women's health physician§ | ||
| Authority to set clinical policies | 2.7 | 0.8 |
| Authority to make staffing decisions | 1.7 | 1.0 |
| Authority to make hiring decisions | 1.6 | 0.8 |
| Authority to obtain additional resources | 2.0 | 0.9 |
| Authority to set referral guidelines | 2.6 | 0.8 |
| Sufficiency of women's services' resources∥ | ||
| Adequacy of clinical expertise | 4.1 | 0.7 |
| Adequacy of equipment | 4.3 | 0.9 |
| Adequacy of nursing staff | 3.8 | 0.9 |
| Adequacy of same gender providers | 4.0 | 0.8 |
| Adequacy of space | 3.7 | 1.1 |
| Separate budget control point for women's health (%) | 21.7 | |
| Clinician provides training to other clinicians about women's health issues (%) | 52.0 | |
| Environmental Characteristics | ||
| Geographic region (%) | ||
| Northeast | 23.0 | |
| Midwest | 23.8 | |
| South | 31.0 | |
| West | 22.2 | |
| Urbanization (%) | ||
| Metropolitan: population at least 1 million | 37.3 | |
| Metropolitan: population 250,000 to 1,000,000 | 34.9 | |
| Metropolitan: population less than 250,000 | 14.3 | |
| Non-metropolitan: population rural–20,000+ | 13.5 | |
| State EPICC law¶ (%) | 31.6 | |
| County family planning clinic concentration* (FP clinics/100,000 women in need) | 56.5 | 49.1 |
*
Median and interquartile range.
†
Six-point Likert scale from none (score=1) to all (score=6).
‡
Eight-point Likert scale from completely integrated (score=1) to completely separated (score=8).
§
Four-point Likert scale from little or none (score=1) to complete authority (score=4).
∥
Five-point Likert scale from never (score=1) to always (score=5).
¶
EPICC denotes Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage.
Data are based on actual responses prior to hot-deck imputation. Of 126 sites whose data were used in the analysis, complete data for each site ranged from N=110 to N=126 and percentages reflect that denominator.