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Table 3.

Medicare Beneficiaries with Diabetes: Self-reported General Health Status (standard errors in parentheses^h)

	National (2000 MEPS)	Underserved (2000–2002)	UrbanⁱUnderserved (2000–2002)	Nonurban Underserved (2000–2002)
Excellent	4.2% (1.2%)	2.7% (.4%)	2.6%^* (.6%)	2.8% (.6%)
Very Good	16.3% (1.1%)	13.4% (1.1%)	4.6%^* (.9%)	20.9% (1.4%)
Good	35.7% (1.3%)	32.3% (1.6%)	17.7%^* (1.5%)	44.7% (1.8%)
Fair	28.8% (2.0%)	43.4% (2.0%)	63.4%^* (2.0%)	26.5% (1.5%)
Poor	15.0% (1.2%)	8.1% (.7%)	11.6%^* (1.1%)	5.1% (.8%)
Sample size^j,k	501	1514	695	819

^{^h}

Standard errors for the underserved sample are corrected for physician-level clustering. Standard errors for the MEPS data are corrected for complex survey sampling.

^ⁱ

The majority of the urban population is of Latino descent while the majority of the nonurban sample is white and non-Latino.

^{^j}

Note that we are giving the actual number of respondents used. Due to the complex survey sampling of the MEPS, each respondent does not contribute equally.

^{^k}

Those who said that they did not know or declined to answer, 5.2% of the nonurban and 7.8% of the urban, were not included.

^{^*}

The urban and nonurban differences are significant with a clustering-corrected F statistic of 69.5 (P value < 0.0001).

MEPS, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.