Table 1.
Characteristic | N = 981 (%) |
Demographics and Health Habits from Patient Survey | |
Age | |
64–74 years | 61 |
75 + years | 39 |
Race | |
Caucasian | 92 |
African American | 8 |
Gender | |
Female | 51 |
Marital status | |
Never married | 5 |
Married | 54 |
Widowed | 33 |
Divorced/separated | 9 |
Employed | 15 |
Household income | |
<$10,000 | 18 |
$10,000–19,999 | 39 |
$20,000–39,999 | 29 |
≥$40,000 | 14 |
Stratum | |
Rural | 30 |
Suburban | 45 |
Veterans Affairs | 20 |
Inner city | 5 |
Smoking status | |
Smoker | 11 |
Quitter | 50 |
Never smoker | 39 |
Characteristics of Visits to Primary Care Office from Medical Records | |
Visits/year to primary care officea (n) | |
< 2 | 35 |
2 – 3 | 26 |
3 – 4 | 26 |
≥5 | 13 |
Visits to identified primary care providerb | |
0 – 25% | 8 |
26 – 50% | 12 |
51 – 75% | 19 |
76 – 100% | 62 |
Preventive Health Service Usage from Medical Records | |
Annual influenza vaccine (up to 4 seasons) | 17 |
Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine | 64 |
Tetanus toxoid | 33 |
Mammogram among women (n = 500) | |
None | 11 |
<1 year | 59 |
≥1 year | 30 |
aVisits/year was a continuous variable which was grouped as <2, 2-<3, 3-<5 and ≥5, but given simplified labels in the Table.
bVisits to identified primary care provider was a continuous variable which was grouped as 0-<26%, 26%-<50%, 50%-<75% and ≥75%, but given simplified labels in the Table.