Table 1.
Demographics, Characteristics of Visits to the Primary Care Office, and Preventive Services Usage
| 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.