Table 1.
Characteristics of Prescribers using the E-Prescribing System and Patients Receiving E-Prescriptions
| Patient characteristics | |
|---|---|
| Overall | N=75,589 |
| Gender | |
| Male | 32,142 (42.5%) |
| Female | 43,447 (57.5%) |
| Age | |
| zero to 18 | 9,417 (12.5%) |
| 19 to 44 | 24,381 (32.3%) |
| 45 to 64 | 32,359 (42.8%) |
| 65 and up | 9,432 (12.5%) |
| Prescriber characteristics | |
| Overall | N=1,217 |
| Gender | |
| Male | 595 (48.9%) |
| Female | 461 (37.9%) |
| missing | 161 (13.2%) |
| Age | |
| under 35 | 161 (13.2%) |
| 36 to 54 | 685 (56.3%) |
| 55 and up | 203 (16.7%) |
| missing | 168 (13.8%) |
| Specialtya | |
| internal medicine | 366 (30.1%) |
| pediatrics | 296 (24.3%) |
| family practice | 188 (15.4%) |
| other | 230 (18.9%) |
| missing | 137 (11.3%) |
| Practice Size | |
| 1–3 | 348 (27.9%) |
| 4–8 | 398 (32.7%) |
| 9–15 | 205 (16.8%) |
| 16+ | 266 (21.9%) |
a As clinicians may have multiple specialties, categories for specialty are not mutually exclusive. Column percentages for this section do not total to 100%